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Lymphocyte blastogenesis was used as an assay of Immune RNA (I-RNA) activity. Normal, non-immune human lymphocytes following incubation with xenogeneic antitumor I-RNA extracted from the lymphoid organs of specifically immunized sheep underwent blastogenesis when exposed to solubilized human tumor antigens in vitro. Blastogenic responses were, unexpectedly, relatively specific for the tumor type used to immunize the I-RNA donor sheep. No significant blastogenic responses were elicited by the I-RNA extracts or by the antigen preparations themselves. This study suggests that normal, human lymphocytes incubated (‘sensitized’) with I-RNA, in vitro, behave, in terms of antigen recognition, like lymphocytes which have previously been sensitized to tumor antigens and demonstrates that xenogeneic Immune RNA will mediate ‘afferent limb’ immune responses to human tumor antigens.
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Coates, M.R., Pilch, Y.H. Conversion of normal human lymphocytes to tumor-specific immunoreactivity by xenogeneic Immune RNA: Blastogenic responses to soluble tumor antigens. Cancer Immunol Immunother 3, 145–152 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00200073
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