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[Immunotherapy of tumors expressing IGF-I]
J Trojan1, H T Duc, C Lafarge-Frayssinet
1Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Université Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France.
Abstract:
Recently we demonstrated that rat glioma cells when transfected with a vector encoding antisense IGF-I c-DNA lost tumorigenicity and induced a tumor specific immune response involving CD8+ lymphocytes. Here we showed, using immunostaining flow cytometry analysis, that the transfected cell lines, rat C-6 glioma and rat LF hepatoma, expressed an increase level of MHC-class I, and even the amount of MHC-I was found to be higher in the transfected hepatoma, than in the transfected glioma cells. This increased expression of MHC-I could contribute to the final immune recognition of tumour immunogenicity.