IN VITRO ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY OF RAT MONOCYTES AND MACROPHAGES ACTIVATED BY CORYNEBACTERIUM PARVUM / 解剖学报

Monocytes,Kupffer cells,spleen macrophages,lung and peritoneal macrophageswere isolated from same rat simultaneously.The effector cells from diverse anato-mical sites were checked for their tumor cytostatic properties using an in vitro tar-get cell growth inhibition assay through measuring (~3H)-TdR incorporation intotumor cell DNA.All of them expressed spontaneous cytostatic activity against hu- man SMMC-7721 hepatoma and mouse YAC-1 lymphoma cells.The effector cells,except monocytes,were shown to exert inhibition on various target cells with diffe-rences in their susceptibility.The cytostasis against either tumor cell lines variedwith five types of effector cells.The most effective cells for inhibiting the growthof lymphoma were monocytes,and Kupffer cells for heptoma,The effector cellsstimulated by Corynebacterium parvum (CP) in vitro were shown that their cytostaticactivity against YAC-1 was increased up to 140-408%,but to heptoma,it wasdecreased to 48-64%.Furthermore,the efficiency of CP stimulation varied withdifferent effector cells also.It is concluded that monocytes and macrophages withsuch natural selective tumor cytostatic capacity were thus everywhere readily availa-ble for activation.CP may enhance or inhibit the cytostatic effect of monocytes andmacrophages on diverse tumor cell lines.It might suggest that the use of CP in thetumor immunotherapy should be considered with different type of tumors.

STUDY OF PROLIFERATIVE CYCLE OF RAT HEPATOCYTES AFTER PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY USING FLOW CYTOMETRY / 解剖学报

Thirty-six male adult rats were divided into 12 groups. The rats, except the control group, were partially (68％) hepatectomized and then killed at intervals between 12-120h after operation. Isolated hepatocytes were prepared and flow cytometry was used to study the proliferative cycle. Mitotic index and binuclear cell count have been performed in liver sections and smears of isolated hepatocytes separately. Tetraploid cells acounted for 76% of all hepatocytes in normal rats and they also constituted the main proliferative population in regenerating liver. During 12-20h after operation, some of the tetraploid cells that remained in G_2 phase entered into mitosis. At 24h after operation, peaks of S phase in tetraploid cells and of octoploid cells occurred. At 36h after operation, mitotic index reached a maxium value and thereafter the percentage of binuclear cells were reduced rapidly. At 48-72h after operation, second peak of DNA synthesis occurred, but showed wide individual variations in time and cell proportion.