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Determination of cell-free interleukin 2 receptor level in the serum of normal animals and of animals bearing IL-2 receptor positive tumours with high or low metastatic capacity.

Serum levels of cell-free interleukin-2 receptors were elevated above normal in mice bearing the IL-2R positive T-cell lymphoma Eb or its highly metastatic variant ESb. Although ESb cells expressed less IL-2R molecules than Eb cells on their cell surface, serum receptor levels were raised more quick...

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Autores principales: Schirrmacher, V., Josimovic-Alasevic, O., Osawa, H., Diamantstein, T.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1987
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2002049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3113470
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Sumario:Serum levels of cell-free interleukin-2 receptors were elevated above normal in mice bearing the IL-2R positive T-cell lymphoma Eb or its highly metastatic variant ESb. Although ESb cells expressed less IL-2R molecules than Eb cells on their cell surface, serum receptor levels were raised more quickly in ESb than in Eb tumour bearing animals. Elevated IL-2R serum levels were a sensitive tumour marker in animals bearing the aggressive variant ESb but not in animals bearing the low metastatic line Eb. Peritoneal ascites tumour-bearing animals had higher serum IL-2R levels than corresponding animals with subcutaneously growing tumours. Thus, serum IL-2R levels in tumour-bearing animals were dependent on the tumour line and influenced by the site and mode of tumour growth.