Biomedical subjects

K Schneiberg

Publications and source records attributed to K Schneiberg.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1981

Adoptive immunotherapy and combined chemo-immunotherapy in transplantable leukaemia of AKR mice (TAL); occurrence of natural killers.

Allo- and syngeneic lymphoid effector cells were injected I. P. into transplantable leukaemia (TAL)-bearing AKR recipients. Effector cells were collected from the peritoneal cavity, lymph nodes, spleen, or thymus, of either non-immunized donors or of donors previously immunized with TAL cells. The ratio, injected number of effector cells divided by injected number of TAL target cells varied in individual experiments from 10:1 to 10 000 : 1. Some AKR recipients were given prior to the leukaemia inoculation a whole-body sublethal X-ray irradiation and/or an I.P. injection of cyclophosphamide. Mean survival of TAL leukaemia was most often prolonged in recipients given viable allogeneic thymocytes derived from non-immunized donors. In some leukaemia-bearing mice treated with chemo-immunotherapy, permanent survival (greater than 70 days) could be observed. As a rule, effector cells derived from non-immunized allogeneic donors were more effective than effector cells from the immunized areas. Syngeneic effectors were ineffective. The occurrence of natural killers (NK cells) to Gross virus-infected cells in the lymphoid organs of low-leukaemic inbred mouse strains is postulated. These NK cells are lacking in high-leukaemic AKR mice.

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PubMed1980

[Pros and cons of the use of immunotherapeutic procedures with special reference to adoptive immunotherapy in proliferative diseases].

Consequences, results, and side-effects known today about active and passive as well as adoptive immunotherapy in human neoplastic diseases are described in a survey and discussed in view of the experiences obtained by animal experiments. In this connection, special attention is attributed to restoring the haematopoietic function by bone-marrow transplantation or implantation of thymus tissue from an immunological point of view.

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PubMed1978

Thymus-dependent cytokinetics in transplantable leukemia of AKR mice.

Perinatally thymectomized AKR mice inoculated i.v. with acute lymphoblastic T-cell leukemia (TAL) demonstrated, as compared to controls, an accelerated passage of injected cells through the lungs. Later in disease they also exhibited an especially intense infiltration of liver and spleen by leukemic blasts proliferating at a slow rate the big majority of cells being in the G0 + G1-phase. The thymus controls the proliferation and the traffic of leukemic cells in the recipient.

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PubMed1976

[The acid-base equilibrium during mouse lymphoblastic leukemia].

In transplantable and in spontaneous lymphoblastic mouse leukemia blood pH, PCO2, TCO2 and BB were examined. Spontaneous Gross-leukemia in AKR mice was found to develop in its final phase respiratory acidosis. Transplantable (TAL) leukemia of AKR mice presents from the onset a tendency toward respiratory acidosis. "L-1210"-leukemia, on the contrary, was shown to alcalise the recipients during the first 8 days after inoculation, later on it can bring about an acidosis. The pH-deviations in "L-1210"-leukemia display a respiratory character in syngeneic DBA/2J recipients, whereas in semiallogeneic recipients the observed changes are metabolic or mixt in nature. This finding strongly argues for the importance of histocompatibility. Intranodally inoculated animals distinctly differ in their parameters in comparison to intravenously and intraperitoneally recipients, hence, an important role of the tissular-milieu which is put first in contact with the leukemic factor must be concluded.

AKR murine leukemia virus↗

PubMed1976

[The effect of exogenous alkalization on cytokinetics and on the survival rate of mice with lymphoblastic leukemia].

In mice vaccinated with two forms of lymphoblastic leukaemia and alkalized with intravenous administration of sodium bicarbonate, the survival rate, the extent of leukaemic infiltration and the proliferative capacity of cells in the bone-marrow, thymus, spleen, lymphnodes, liver and lungs were investigated. The survival rate in the TAL leukaemia of the AKR stem producing an endogenous acidosis could be significantly prolonged in a statistical way by alkalization. Yet an accelerated expiring rate could be observed after exogenous alkalization in L-1210 leukaemia of the DBA/2J stem producing an endogenous alkalosis. By means of cytological and impulse-cytophotometrical investigations the exogenous alkalization of both forms of leukaemia could be proved to have a direct bearing on the proliferative kinetics. In TAL leukaemia the leukaemic proliferation was inhibited by the exogenously involved correction of the acid-base balance; in the L-1210 leukaemia, however, the pH disturbances were enhanced, thus accelerating the leukaemic proliferation. Consequently, the disturbances of the acid base balance seem to be an essential cofactor in the leukaemia genesis. The exogenous direction of the acid-base balance may be important as a means of treating leukaemia.

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PubMed1975

[A case of atypical myeloblasts; a RNA leukemia].

In a 53-year-old female patient, a tumor localized in the nasopharyngeal cavity together with hematologic features of acute paramyeloblastic leukemia were observed. More than 70% blast cells contained giant intracytoplasmic inclusions which have been found to be strongly pyroninophilic. The electron-microscopic study revealed big agglomerations of ribosomal RNA inside of pseudofibrillar structures of the cytoplasma. The possibility of a new nosological entity should be envisaged.

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PubMed1974