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TNF promotes metastasis by impairing natural killer cell activity

✍ Scribed by Michael Hafner; Peter Orosz; Achim Krüger; Daniela N. Männel

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
French
Weight
581 KB
Volume
66
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7136

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✦ Synopsis

Inflammatory mediators such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-1 enhance tumor colony formation in different models of experimental and spontaneous metastasis. The involvement of the natural killer (NK) cell system in this process was investigated. Tumor necrosis factor does not appear to act directly on tumor cells by reducing their susceptibility to the cytotoxic action of NK cells but rather impairs NK activity in tumor-bearing mice. Such impairment of the natural killer system might be one means by which TNF supports tumor colony formation. Even though the metastasis- enhancing effect of TNF remained detectable in mice which have a greatly reduced NK cell cytotoxic activity due to a defect in the bg locus, normal mice which were depleted of NK cells by antibody treatment did not show enhanced metastasis after TNF injection. Therefore, the TNF-enhanced metastasis can only be seen as long as some NK cell function is operating in the animals.

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