Drug-induced in vitro tolerance to allogeneic antigens. II. Further analysis of in vitro-tolerized spleen cells in a fully allogeneic murine combination.
Transplantation
; 45(2): 464-70, 1988 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-2964109
ABSTRACT
C3H/HeSlc (C3H, H-2k) spleen cells were made tolerant in vitro to C57BL/6CrSlc (B6, H-2b) at the cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CMC) level by in vitro stimulation for 48 hr with mitomycin C (MMC)-treated B6 spleen cells, and treatment with 5 micrograms/ml of 5-fluorouracil for a further 9 hr. These cells were given intraperitoneally to neonate (C3HxB6) F1 mice to examine whether these tolerized spleen cells would cause lethal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Despite the lack of CMC, the tolerized C3H spleen cells caused lethal GVHD in most of the neonate F1 mice. Evaluating from various immune parameters, it was evident that T cell populations responsible for IL-2 production, cytostasis, and delayed footpad reaction (DFR) were retained intact after in vitro tolerance induction, probably because of their less-proliferative characteristics in response to fully allogeneic antigen stimulation, and were considered to be responsible for lethal GVHD. Contribution of natural killer (NK) cells to lethal GVHD was not ruled out.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Spleen
/
Lymphocyte Transfusion
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Immune Tolerance
/
Isoantigens
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Transplantation
Year:
1988
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Japan