Abstract:
Objective:To study the biological characteristics of dendritic cells (DC) derived from peripheral blood of patients with lung cancer.Methods:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were isolated from 11 lung cancer patients and healthy donors respectively, cultured with GM-CSF (100 μg/L) and IL-4 (50 μg/L). After pulsed with apoptotic lung cancer cells for 24 h, TNF-α(10 μg/L)added or agonist CD40mAb (5 mg/L) for a further induction of 3~4 days. Phenotypes of DC were detected by FCM. The capacities for DC to uptake antigens were monitored at day 7 and day 11 detected by FITC-dextran uptake test.3H-thymidine incorporation test was used to measure the proliferative capability of T cells. Results: Both DC derived from PBMC of lung cancer patients and from PBMC of healthy donors showed high expressions of CD1α, CD80, CD83, CD86 and HLA-DR, which were known as associated markers of mature DC. The 7th day DC derived from lung cancer patients PBMC showed a strong capacity to uptake antigens. DC were induced by TNF-α or CD40mAb, then became mature. DC entirely lost their capacities of uptake antigens, while DC could stimulate autologous and allogenic T cells' proliferation. When matured DC co-incubated with autologous T cells for 48 h, activated T cells could be observed and the number of activated T cells was significantly increased (P<0.05).Conclusion:The functional and mature DC could be induced from peripheral blood of lung cancer patients in vitro.