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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 144, Issue 6 2409-2412, Copyright © 1990 by American Association of Immunologists

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A paracrine circuit in the regulation of the proliferation of macrophages infiltrating murine sarcomas

B Bottazzi, E Erba, N Nobili, F Fazioli, A Rambaldi and A Mantovani
Istituto di Richerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy.

Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) isolated from two murine sarcomas (mFS6 and MN/MCA1) had high levels of proliferative activity (7 to 11% of cells in S phase) compared to peritoneal macrophages (1 to 2% of cells in S phase). In an effort to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the proliferative activity of TAM, expression of c-fms and macrophage (M)-CSF was investigated in TAM and sarcoma cells. TAM had high levels of mRNA transcripts of the c-fms protooncogene, which encodes a tyrosine kinase probably identical to the M-CSF receptor, but did not express M-CSF transcripts whereas sarcoma cells had high levels of M-CSF mRNA. Sarcoma cell conditioned medium had M-CSF activity on bone marrow cells and induced proliferation of peritoneal exudate and bone marrow-derived macrophages. These activities were blocked by anti- M-CSF antibodies. These findings outline a paracrine circuit in the regulation of TAM proliferation, involving M-CSF, secreted by sarcoma cells and acting on c-fms expressing TAM. Inasmuch as TAM from these murine sarcomas have tumor growth promoting activity, a "ping pong" reciprocal feeding interaction may occur between macrophages and neoplastic cells in these tumors.


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