Enhancement of the cytotoxic effect of cytokine induced killers by dendritic cells pulsed with astragalus polysaccharides / 中国免疫学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To observe the effects of Astragalus polysaccharides on antigen presentation of dendritic cells(DC).Methods:DC and CIK cells were generated by culturing PBMC of healthy blood donor.The typical DC and DC pulsed by Astragalus polysaccharides were co-cultured with CIK cells,respectively.Then the changes in the phenotypes of the DCs pulsed with Astragalus polysaccharides were determined.Cell surface markers were analysed by FACS method.IFN-? and IL-12 secreted by co-cultured cells were detected by ELISA.The cytotoxicity of effector cells on A549 cells in vitro were measured by MTT assays.Results:Astragalus polysaccharides could increase the expression of CD40,CD80 and HLA-DR on DC surface.The Astragalus polysaccharides pulsed DC-CIK cells resulted in an enhanced killing activity to A549 cells than that of unpulsd DC-CIK cells(P