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Effects of vitamin A on antimetastatic activity of alveolar M 0 were studied. The results were as follows:1 . SD rats recieved vitamin A were killed and their alveolar M0 were harvested by lavage and cocultured with prelabelled B16 Melanoma cells for 48h in proportion of 20 : 1 , the average precentage of cytotoxity were 34.28%;2 . Zymosan-C3b rosette formation in SD rats treated with vitamin A was significantly increased. The average rosette forming rate was 43.00%. It was markdly higher than those of controls ( P
ABSTRACT
The in vitro tumoricidal activity of peritoneal macrophages harvested from C57BL mice and activiated by li posomes containing water-soluble muramyl dipeptides (MDP) was measured by ~(125)I.UdR release assay. The results demonstrated that liposomes containing MDP could effectively activiate macrophages to become tumoricidal. The percentage of pu(?)monarymetastasis and the average metastatic pulmonary colonies of mice with experimental tumor metastasis decreased after intravenous injection of MDP encapsulated in liposomes. These results suggested that systemic administration liposomes containing MDP whichinduced macrophage activiation might provide a useful immunot heray for tumor, especial1y for pulmonary mini metastasis.