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Antitumor effect of a peptide-glucan preparation extracted from Agaricus blazei in a double-grafted tumor system in mice.

Abstract
The antitumor effect of extracts obtained from the fruit body of Agaricus blazei Murill was examined in a double-grafted tumor system, in which BALB/c mice received simultaneous intradermal injections of Meth-A tumor cells in both the right (10(6) cells) and left flank (2 x 10(5) cells), and were then injected with 5 mg of extracts of A. blazei in the right tumor on days 3, 4 and 5. Intratumoral administration of ethanol-soluble (Fraction 1), water-ethanol-soluble (Fraction 2), ammonium oxalate-soluble (Fraction 3) and ammonium oxalate-insoluble (Fraction 4) fractions resulted in inhibition of tumor growth, with Fraction 3 showing the most tumoricidal activity, producing regression of the right tumor and inhibition of growth of the left, non-injected tumor. The maximum effect was obtained using 0.5 mg of Fraction 3 and this amount was used in subsequent experiments. The antitumor effect of intratumorally administered Fraction 3 was enhanced by oral ad lib administration of feed containing 0.083% of Fraction 3. When immunized spleen cells from mice that had been cured by intratumoral administration of 0.5 mg of Fraction 3 were directly injected (2 x 10(7) cells/mouse) into the Meth-A tumor, tumor growth was inhibited. The tumor cells on day 7 from the Fraction 3-treated right tumor and from the left tumor were cultured for 24 h and their culture supernatants were assayed for neutrophil or macrophage chemotactic activity. Significant macrophage chemotactic factor activity was detected in the culture media from the left tumor tissue. Serum levels of immunosuppressive acidic protein (IAP), produced by activated macrophages and neutrophils, increased transiently soon after intradermal injection of 0.5 mg of Fraction 3. These results suggest that regression of the left non-injected tumor was due to an immune reaction, involving induction of cytotoxic cells in the spleen, and the release of chemotactic factors in the distant tumor.
AuthorsT Ebina, Y Fujimiya
JournalBiotherapy (Dordrecht, Netherlands) (Biotherapy) Vol. 11 Issue 4 Pg. 259-65 ( 1998) ISSN: 0921-299X [Print] Netherlands
PMID9950102 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Chemotactic Factors
  • Glucans
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • Peptides
  • immunosuppressive acidic protein
Topics
  • Adoptive Transfer
  • Agaricus (chemistry)
  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents (administration & dosage, isolation & purification, pharmacology)
  • Chemotactic Factors (metabolism)
  • Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Fibrosarcoma (drug therapy, immunology, pathology)
  • Glucans (administration & dosage, isolation & purification, pharmacology)
  • Macrophage Activation
  • Macrophages
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Neoplasm Proteins (biosynthesis)
  • Peptides (administration & dosage, isolation & purification, pharmacology)

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