Abstract

It has been well documented in the literature that the removal of circulatory immune complexes (CICs) from the host circulation leads to the immunopotentiation as well as generation of antitumor responses in a variety of tumors in rats, cats, dogs and human patients. CICs are the major immunosuppressive factors in tumor bearing host. Protein A (PA) has been extensively used for the removal of these CICs from the sera/plasma of tumor bearers, because PA has the ability to bind with the Fc portion of mammalian immunoglobulins. Previously, we reported for the first time a potent antitumor response by the inoculation of cell free Ehrlich’s ascites fluid adsorbed in vitro over PA containing Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) in Ehrlich’s ascites tumor model. However, there was toxicity associated with this form of therapy in terms of early death of treated animals and the depletion of hepatic glutathione pool as well as phase I biotransformation enzyme and increase in glutathione- S-transferase (GST) activities. In the present investigation, tumor bearing animals were treated intraperitoneally (i.p.) on alternate days for 15 days with adsorbed ascites fluid (ad-ASF) (0.1 ml) and glutathione (GSH) (250 mg/kg body weight) separately. We found that GSH supplementation increases mean survival time of GSH and ad-ASF treated mice up to 37.2 days in comparison with 19.9 days for only ad-ASF treated animals, while percent increase in body weight was found to be not affected by the GSH substitution, which remains significantly lower ( P<0.01) in comparison to the tumor control animals. GSH supplementation causes a significant decrease ( P<0.05) of glutathione- S-transferase and restoration of aniline hydroxylase activity ( P<0.05) and aminopyrine- N-demethylase activity. We have also observed that GSH supplementation does not alter the tumor cell viability and tumor cell counts in ad-ASF treated animals in comparison to only ad-ASF treated animals, which indicates that GSH supplementation does not alter the antitumor effect of the therapy. Treatment of Ehrlich’s ascites tumor bearing mice with ad-ASF and glutathione increased their survival, but did not reduce the mortality of animals because of tumor.

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