Word: interleukins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kradin said future research will center on keeping the artificially grown lymphocytes alive in the body for longer periods of time by injecting Interleukin 2 directly into a tumor in addition to cultivating a sample outside the body
...study, funded by a grant from the Upjohn Company, began by extracting a portion of live tumor in a patient suffering from adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer common to emphysema patients. The doctors mixed the removed tumor with a protein called Interleukin 2, which stimulates the growth of the lymphocytes normally present in the extracted tumor...
...Although Interleukin 2 has been available since 1976, in previous experiments doctors have concentrated on multiplying lymphocytes in general, and have not reproduced and experimented with the cells specifically associated with a malignant tumor...