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Immunological adjuvants, as well as a variety of chronic infections, stimulate the reticuloendothelial system and induce a population of activated macrophages exhibiting potent bacteriostatic and tumoricidal capacities.1,2 Cytotoxic macrophages can also be induced in vitro by the activation of macrophages with non-specific stimuli, such as endotoxin, Poly I•Poly C, or with soluble mediators released by stimulated lymphocytes.3–5 Ruco and Meltzer found that peritoneal macrophages,induced in vivo by acute inflammatory agents, are at least 10 times more responsive to activation by lymphokines than normal-resident peritoneal macrophages.6 The macrophages, that are mobilized to inflammatory and tumor growth sites, are mature monocytes in transit in peripheral blood from their site of generation — the bone marrow. Lohmann-Matthes et al.7 showed that macrophages, differentiating in vitro from bone marrow cell precursors, can be activated by lymphokines for tumor cell cytotoxicity.
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Bursuker, I., Goldman, R. (1982). A Differential Responsiveness of In Vitro Differentiating Mononuclear Phagocytes from Bone Marrows of Normal and Inflamed Mice to Lymphokines and Poly I•Poly C. In: Rossi, F., Patriarca, P. (eds) Biochemistry and Function of Phagocytes. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 141. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8088-7_7
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