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Hepatic fibrosis with obliterative lesions of the small hepatic veins occurred in a three month old infant with fatal congenital leukaemia treated with cytostatic drugs. The vascular changes were characterized by an unusual, hitherto unreported angiomatoid, proliferation of the endothelium. The process is compared with the more common subendothelial-fibrous type of the "veno-occlusive disease". An etiological interpretation is difficult, possibly the process is a secondary reaction to the endothelial to a cytostatic-induced lesion with hepatic fibrosis.
Virchows Arch A Pathol Anat Histol 1977 Sep 28
PMID:Unusual obliterative disease of the hepatic veins in an infant. 14 77

Aqueous extracts of lymphoid organs were prepared and fractionated by means of gel filtration, ion exchange chromatography, and isoelectric focusing. A protein-containing fraction with a molecular weight of approximately 80,000--90,000 and isoelectric points of 7.6 and 5.3--6.2 was isolated and shown to inhibit reproducibly both thymidine incorporation and proliferation of concanavalin A-stimulated mouse spleen lymphocytes in vitro. This effect appeared specific since proliferation of mastocytoma P-815 and leukemia L-1210 cells remained unaffected. A small molecular weight fraction (500 to 10,000 daltons) was also found to inhibit lymphocyte proliferation in vitro but was without apparent specificity for cell type.
Agents Actions 1977 Sep
PMID:The effects of fractions (chalones) obtained from lymphoid organs on lymphocyte proliferation in vitro. 14 97

Two patients treated for acute leukaemia with BCNU, cyclophosphamide and cytosin-arabinoside are reported, in whom pulmonary fibrosis developed and progressed during therapy. The development of lung fibrosis during combined treatment, together with serological exclusion of other diseases known to be associated with pulmonary fibrosis, make a causal connection between the treatment and the fibrosis very probable.
Rofo 1978 Sep
PMID:[Progressive pulmonary fibrosis due to combined treatment with BCNU, cyclophosphospahmide and cytosin-arabinoside (author's transl)]. 15 Oct 43

Mice have been immunosuppressed with cyclophosphamide, cortisone-acetate, irradiation, or Ehrlich ascitic fluid (EAF) and then grafted with Ehrlich tumor or with one of the following strain-specific tumors: thymoma, methylcholanthrene-induced fibrosarcoma, B-16 melanoma, lymphatic leukaemia, and myeloid leukaemia. Immunosuppression of the host influenced very differently the growth of transplanted malignancies. The growth of thymoma and of Ehrlich tumor was regularly enhanced. The growth of fibrosarcoma and of melanoma, on the other hand, was retarded in mice pretreated with EAF and X-rays, or remained unchanged in mice pretreated with drugs. Leukaemia growth was not influenced by any immunosuppressive treatment; the only exception was enhanced growth of lymphoid leukaemia in animals pretreated with EAF. Thus different tumors grew differently in animals immunosuppressed by the same immunosuppressive agent, while different immunosuppressive treatment changed the growth of one particular tumor always in the same way. From this we concluded: (1) there is no rule as to how immunosuppression of the host will influence tumor growth; and (2) the way in which the malignant growth will be changed depends mainly upon the type of the tumor and probably not very much upon the type of immunosuppressive treatment.
Z Krebsforsch Klin Onkol Cancer Res Clin Oncol 1978 Sep 28
PMID:Effect of immunosuppression on the growth of six murine tumors. 15 96

The newly synthesized nitrosoureas 1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitroso-3-(methylenecarboxamido)-urea (Acetamido-CNU), 1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitroso-3-(4-morpholino)-urea (Morpholino-CNU), 1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitroso-3-(1-piperidino)-urea (Piperidino-CNU), and 2-[3-(2-chloroethyl)-3-nitrosoureido]-ethylmethanesulfonate (Ethylmethanesulfonato-CNU) were compared in their chemotherapeutic activity against preterminal rat leukemia L 5222 with BCNU, CCNU, MeCCNU, Chlorozotocin, and Hydroxyethyl-CNU. With respect to the dose range effecting a median survival time of more than 90 days, MeCCNU was superior to the other substances. Chlorozotocin, on the other hand, was the only substance which achieved no cures in this experimental arrangement. From the four newly introduced substances the water-soluble substances Acetamido-CNU and Morpholino-CNU were approximately comparable to CCNU with regard to the dose range effecting a median survival time of greater than 90 days. Piperidino-CNU and Ethylmethanesulfonato-CNU also effected cures; however, only Piperidino-CNU in one dosage effected a median survival time of greater than 90 days.
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 1979 Sep
PMID:Examination of four newly synthesized 2-chloroethylnitrosoureas in comparison with BCNU, CCNU, MeCCNU, chlorozotocin and hydroxyethyl-CNU in preterminal rat leukemia L 5222. 15 9

Inoculation of the Soehner-Dmochowski isolate of the Moloney strain of murine sarcoma virus (MSV), designated MSV-SD, consistently leads to the development of bone tumors in the susceptible New Zealand black (NB) rats. Two separate cell cultures have been established from 2 individual MSV-SD-induced NB rat bone tumors. Cells of 1 bone tumor culture, designated RBT-E, are in early in vitro passages. These cells form colonies in agar medium and take up 2-deoxy-D-[3H]glucose at a greatly enhanced rate, 5 times that of normal nontransformed rat embryo cells. Cells of the RBT-E culture release both MSV and murine leukemia virus (MuLV) and therefore contain sarcoma-positive leukemia-positive transformed cells. The other rat bone tumor culture, designated RBT-L, produced MSV at early passages. RBT-L culture has been passaged over 130 times in vitro. Cells of the RBT-L culture form colonies in agar medium and take up 2-deoxy-D-[3H]glucose at an enhanced rate (3 times that of rat embryo cells), indicating the presence of transformed cells within the RBT-L culture. However, cells of the RBT-L culture at late passages (Passage 130 or more) produce only MuLV and no detectable MSV activity (as shown by the lack of tumor-inducing activity and the lack of focus-forming activities by direct assay or by infectious center assay). Attempts to rescue MSV activity from RBT-L cells by cocultivation with MuLV-producing mouse cells were not successful. The MuLV found in the RBT-L cells, however, is a competent helper virus capable of rescuing the MSV genome from MSV-SD-induced hamster bone tumor cells. All the available evidence supports the notion that late passages of the RBT-L culture contain transformed cells that do not produce conventionally detectable MSV. These cells are referred to as sarcoma-negative leukemia-positive cells. The sarcoma-negative leukemia-positive cells represent a different kind of MSV-induced transformed cells and provide a unique system for studies in search of MSV markers such as MSV-specific antigens and MSV-specific nucleotide sequences.
Cancer Res 1975 Sep
PMID:Sarcoma-negative leukemia-positive transformed cell culture established from a murine sarcoma virus-induced rat bone tumor. 16 60

A malignant hepatoma occurred in a 12-year-old girl who eight years previously had developed an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia which for eight years had been in complete haematological remission. Fourteen months after the last re-induction treatment period had been discontinued, but while on methotrexate and 6-mercaptopurine maintenance, a hepatocellular liver carcinoma developed of which the patient died after a fulminating course, still in complete haematological remission. As far as is known, no direct carcinogenic effect can be ascribed to the two antimetabolites, but it must be assumed that these two drugs, taken by the patient for over seven years, led to cirrhosis of the liver whose malignant transformation was significantly influenced by the immunosuppressive effects of methotrexate and 6-mercaptopurine, given as maintenance therapy according to protocol 02 LA 64, Paris.
Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1975 Sep 05
PMID:[Carcinoma of the liver in a child after seven-year complete remission of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia(author's transl)]. 16 14

The incidence of infectious murine leukemia virus (MuLV) in congenic-resistant C57BL mice was studied. No constant relationship between the incidence of MuLV and the H-2 complex was apparent. Two lines, B10 and B10.A, were examined in detail because the incidence of MuLV in B10 was low and the virus appeared relatively late in life, whereas B10.A animals had a relatively high incidence of infection by MuLV early in life. Further studies of B10.A mice revealed an almost universal concordance between the virologic status of the mother and her offspring. This was particularly evident when (B10 times B10.A)F1 animals were compared with (B10.A times B10)F1 mice: Although genetically identical, the incidence of MuLV in the latter was high, whereas in the former it was low. Transmission of MuLV by milk was proved by foster-nursing experiments; when the infants of MuLV-positive B10.A mothers were suckled on MuLV-negative B10.A mothers, they were free of MuLV. Milk-borne infection may account for the natural dissemination of MuLV among some inbred lines of mice.
J Natl Cancer Inst 1975 Sep
PMID:Ecotropic leukemia viruses in congenic C57BL mice: natural dissemination by milk-borne infection. 16 83

The kinetics of virus labeling was used to study the maturation of viral RNA in the Rickard strain of feline leukemia virus. Viral RNA labeled over differing intervals was characterized by gel electrophoresis and velocity sedimentation in sucrose gradients made up in aqueous buffer and 99% dimethyl sulfoxide. Labeled virus was found within 30 min after adding radioactive uridine to the cells and production of labeled virus reached a maximum at 4 to 5 h after pulse labeling. Native RNA from feline leukemia virus resolved into three size classes when analyzed by electrophoresis on 2.0% polyacrylamide-0.5% agarose gels: a 6.2 x 10(6) to 7.1 x 10(6) mol wt (50 to 60S) class, an 8.7 x 10(4) mol wt (approximately 8S) class, and a 2.5 x 10(4) mol wt (4 to 5S) class. From two experiments during which RNA degradation appeared minimal, these made up to 57 to 76%, 2 to 5%, and 6 to 12%, respectively, of the total RNA. The 8S RNA in feline leukemia virus has not previously been reported. The 50 to 60S RNA from virus harvested after 4 h of labeling electrophoretically migrated faster and sedimented more slowly in sucrose gradients than did the same RNA species harvested after 20 h of labeling. This argues for an intravirion modification of the high-molecular-weight RNA. The large subunits of denatured viral RNA from both 4- and 20-h labeled-viral RNA electrophoretically migrated with an estimated molecular weight of 3.2 x 10(6) but sedimented with 28S ribosomal RNA (1.8 X 10(6) mol wt) when analyzed by velocity sedimentation through 99% dimethyl sulfoxide.
J Virol 1975 Sep
PMID:Properties of feline leukemia virus. III. Analysis of the RNA. 16 89

The 50 to 70S RNA of the Harvey sarcoma-Moloney leukemia virus (MLV) complex consists of 30 to 40S RNA subunits of two different size classes and contains sequences homologous to Moloney mouse leukemia virus and to information contained in a C-type rat virus, termed NRK virus. We have isolated by preparative gel electrophoresis the large (component 1) and the small (component 2) 30 to 40S RNA species from the Harvey sarcoma-MLV complex. Harvey RNA component 1 was completely complementary to DNA transcribed from MLV RNA and showed no homology to DNA transcribed from NRK virus when annealed under conditions of DNA excess. Harvey RNA component 2 was about 65% complementary to MLV DNA and about 33% complementary to NRK virus DNA. Approximately 60 to 80% of the MLV-specific sequences in RNA component 2 is either a distinct molecular species or is part of a hydrid molecular including NRK virus- and MLV-specific sequences. The rest of the MLV sequences in component 2 could be accounted for by degraded component 1 co-purifying with component 2. The possible role of these sequences in the ability of the virus to transform cells is discussed.
J Virol 1975 Sep
PMID:Base sequence differences between the RNA components of Harvey sarcoma virus. 16 96


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