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L ARGONNE CANCER RESEARCH HOS 95,O EA'ST FIFTY-NINTH STREET CHICAGO 37 * -ILLINOIS A, L . Semiannual Report to THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ' MARCH 1961' LEON a JACOBSON; AD. Editor iop@%TED BY WE UM~OF CMICAGICS '. UNDER CONTRACT' AT-(7 1-l)-6C)I .' ' LC I>-. .- .s " - L', - -- - - I _.- - -- --VA DISCLAIMER This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency Thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. 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L used in tbe &om. 6%4n belurli of the c'&atr'* iqcladea any emplopc~ urr ~~of the Get011ta thsartaaz tbsa edempl@we or centmetor ppmm, Ian& or Mb- or provida aceaa~& aq;p Wormphi pmnsnt to his emplopwit or contra& *the- . .on. ACRH-15 ARGONNE CANCER RESEARCH HOSPITAL 950 EAST FIFTY-N1NT.H STREET CHICAGO 37 ILLINOIS Semiannual Report to THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION MARCH 1961 LEON 0. .JACOBSON, M.D. Editor MARGOT DOYLE, Ph.D. Associate Editor OPERATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO UNDER CONTRACT AT-(1 1-1)-69 TABLE OF CONTENTS Comparison of the effects of isologous, homologous, and heterologous hematopoietic . tissues on post-irradiation survival. L. 0. Jaeoboon and E. L. Simmnns ................................ Studles UII Llit survival of transfused blnnrl in rats. J. S. Thompson, C. W. Gurney, A. Hanel, E. Ford, and D. Rofstra ........... Studies on erythropoiesis XVII. Some quantitative aspects of the erythropoietic re- sponse to erythropoietin. C. W. Gurney, N. Wackman, and E. Filmanowicz ....................... Inhibition of erythropcsiesis by estrogens. P. P. Dukes-and E. Goldwasser .................................. Studies on tryptophan metabolism. I. Urinary tryptophan metabolites in hypoplastic anemias and other hematologic disorders. H. S.. Marver. .............................................. Effect of daily exposure to 15 r Y -radiation on susceptibility of mice to experimental infection. C. W. Hammond, S. K. Anderle, and C. P. Miller ...................... Attempts to increase resistance of mice to bacterial infection by prolonged low dose Y -irradiation. C. W. Hammond, S. K. Anderle, and C. P. Miller ...................... Restoration of serum bactericidal activity and prevention of its loss in x-irradiated mice. L. Kornfeld and C. P. Miller .................................... Immunohistochemical study of Ehrlich ascites tumor. F. W. Fitch ................................................ Comparison of effects of 1l3'-induced hypothyroidism axid L-triiodothyronine on irra- diated hair roots in mice. M. L. Griem, J. A. Stein, R. P. Reinertson, R. Reinertson, and B. R. Brown.. ... Modification of radiation responses of tissue by colchicine: effects on mouse hair roots. M. L. Griem, F. D. Malkinson, and P. H. Morse ....................... Production and use of Iodine -125. P. V. Harper, W. D. Siemens, K. A. Lathrop, and H. Endlich ............... The localization of octoiodofluorescein-1l3' in human brain tumors. E. C. Tocus, G. T. Okita, J. P. Evans, and S. Mullan .................... A theoretical evaluation of brain scaru~ingsystems. R.N.Beck ................................................ The thick target yield and excitation function for the reaction ~h'O~(~n)~d103., P. V. Harper, K. Lathrop, and J. L. Need. ........................... Brain cholesterol: incorporation .of select carbon- 14 and tritium precursors into brain. J. J. Kabara and G. T. Okita ............... ; .................... Net synthesis of RNA with a microbial enzyme requiring DNA and four ribonucleoside triphosphates S. B. Weiss and T. Nakamoto .......................... '; '......... 32 A new synthesis of (P )uridine 5' -phosphate. D. B. Straus and E. Goldwasser ................................ 139 Metabolism of 17 a-hydronyprogesterone-4-~14-17- a -capoate by homogenates of rat liver and human placenta. M. Wiener, G. I. Lupu, and E. J. Plotz. ............................ 14 1 Staff Publications. .............................................. 148 COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF ISOLOGOUS, HOMOLOGOUS, AND HETEROLOGOU~TOPOIETIC TISSUES r==-* o~-&D&gg&!bgg$$L*T BY L. 0. Jacobson and E. L. Simmons The dream of replacing injured or diseased members of the body by a transplant of healthy tissue of human or other animal origin is of some antiquity. One of the earliest authenticated reports of such an attempt dates from 1682, and is described by ~ibson.' History does not tell US how successful this substitution of a dog's cranium for part of a human skull may have been considered, since the Church disapproved of the operation, and in consequence the offending bone was removed. In more recent times, successful transplantation of tissues from one animal to another has become a reality, made possible by the development of the atomic bomb and the subsequent in- crease in our knowledge of radiation and its biologic effects. Research in the fields of radiation biology and medicine has brought new understanding of the fundamental principles of the im- mune mechanism' involved in tissue and organ transplantation, with the possibility of effecting cures. Even ten years ago, despite the fact that Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895 and that they have been in use ever since, no treatment for post-irradiation damage was known. It was recog- nized, to be sure, that the biologic action of irradiation could be modified by pre-irradiation treatment. For example, Treadwell and Gardner 2 had shown in 1938 that mice given estrogens ten days before irradiation were able to survive dosages well above the lethal range. Similarly, in the late 1940's ~arron,~Patt 4 and Cronkite5 demonstrated that such sulfhydryl compounds as glutathione and cysteine would protect, provided that they were present at the time of irradi- ation. At about the same time, we ourselves were exploring the effect of lead protection of the spleen on regeneration of the blood-forming tissues following total-body irradiation. We real- ized that this procedure prevented radiation mortality even after lethal dosages. Furthermore, not only did the spleen itself hypertrophy and so prevent the fatal depression of the blood ele- ments, but the spl.een shielding was accompanied by a rapid regeneration of the bone marrow which had previously been depopulated. Other protective treatments such as transplantation of spleens of new-born mice, and intravenous injection of homogenates of spleen and embryo liver were also found to protect the mice from dosages well above the lethal range,6-8 and Lorenz9 expanded the list of protective hematopoietic tissues to include bone marrow cells. Thus, it be- came apparent that 28-day survival following administration of a lethal dose of radiation could *Summary of the address presented as part of a Panel Discussion on Bone Marrow Trans- plants and the General Immunological Problems, atthe Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Radi- ological Society of North America, Chicago, Ill., November 15-20, 1959, and appearing in Radi- ology, 75:6, 1960. be enhanced by injection of a variety of hematopoietic tissues (even from such genetically dis- tinct species as the guinea pig and rat), into the irradiated mouse. Many explanations were put forward to account for the mechanism responsible for this re- covery. Among others, it was suggested that the transplanted cells detoxified a poison supposed- ly formed in the irradiated tissues, that the healthy cells were self-seeding, or that they re- leased some humoral substance which hastened the recovery of the damaged tissues. At this time we favored the humoral hypothesis because it seemed inconceivable that rat or guinea pig cells would not be rejected by the body of a mouse. From the outset it was obvious that isologous tissue, that is, tissue from the same inbred strain as the host, was capable of providing long-term survival against irradiation death from dosages often as high as twice the normal LD50. In 1954 however, a new phenomenon was ob- served which suggested that the injected cells actually colonized the weakened host. Evidence for this was presented by Barnes and out it" who discovered that although hematopoietic cells of a different strain or species would give excellent survival following the acute radiation cri- sis, the animals so treated worsened and slowly succumbed by 120 days to what came to be known as "secondary disease" or "homologous disease."