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PubMed1975

The presence of paternal H-2 antigens on hybrid mouse blastocysts during experimental delay of implantation and the disappearance of these antigens after onset of implantation.

The presence of paternal H-2 antigens on hybrid mouse blastocysts before and during implantation was investigated by means of the isotope anti-globulin technique. It was found that experimentally delayed blastocysts possess paternal H-2 antigens whereas these antigens can no longer be detected 14 hours after estradiol activation of delayed blastocysts.

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PubMed1976

Analysis of immunosuppression generated by the graft-versus-host reaction. II. Characterization of the suppression cell and its mechanism of action.

Spleen cells from (CBA X C57/BL) F1 mice undergoing graft-versus-host (GVH) reaction induced by injection of parental cells 7-14 days previously are capable of suppressing an immune response by normal or primed F1 spleen cells to chicken erythrocytes and levan in vivo and sheep erythrocytes in vitro. The cells in these GVH spleens which were responsible for the suppression were sensitive to treatment with anti-0 serum, resistant to 900 rad irradiation in vivo and not retained by anti-immunoglobulin columns. Suppressor activity in vitro was present only in the non-adherent fraction of these GVH cell suspensions. Furthermore, the T-cell fraction, purified by affinity chromatography, suppressed the in vitro response of macrophage-depleted normal F1 cells to DNP-levan. Collectively, these observations imply that suppressor T cells generated by GVH reaction can affect B-cell functions directly without intermediary macrophage participation. Spleen cells from (CBA X C57/BL) F1 mice undergoing GVH reaction induced by C57/BL cells were depleted of their F1 content by treatment with anti-CBA alloantiserum. The suppressive activity of the residual donor component was still expressed against other F1 cells (AKR X C57/BL) which were H-2 compatible with the original host, but not against H-2-incompatible cells (DBA/1 X C57/BL) F1. However, the latter were suppressed in the presence of (CBA X C57/BL) F1 cells. Thus, interaction of donor T cells with F1 target cells containing those H-2 antigens towards which they are sensitized is mandatory for the subsequent manifestation of immunosuppressive activity. GVH cells suppressed the response of primed F1 cells in double Marbrook chambers when the two populations were separated were by a cell-impermeable membrane, provided the GVH suspension contained F1 cells to which donor T cells were sensitized. This suggests that soluble factors are involved in the mechanism of GVH-induced immunosuppression.

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PubMed1975

[A study of H-2 mutations in mice. V. Detection of mutations M505, Hzl and M506 in the host vs transplant reaction].

H-2 mutant/normal pairs of congenic mouse strains C57BL/6equilibriumB6.M505 (H-2Kbd), C57BL/6equilibriumB6.C(Hz1) (H-2Kba) and A.CAequilibriumA.CA(M506) (H-2fa) were studied in the graft versus host assay. All the three mutations were expressed in these tests as gain and loss of H-2 antigen. The data obtained confirm an earlier suggestion that the H-2K antigenic molecule bears antigenic determinants which could be detected by a variety of immunological techniques.

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PubMed1976

Immunogenetic analysis of H-2 mutations. IV. Mapping of and immune reactions to the H-2fa mutation.

H-2fa is a spontaneous mutation that occurred in an (A.CA X A)F1 female mouse and was later transferred on an A-strain background [congenic line A.CA (M506) or M506]. Skin grafts exchanged between M506 and A.CA strains are rejected within 4 weeks after grafting. Significant reaction is observed when these two strains are used as responders and stimulators in mixed lymphocyte culture or in a splenomegaly graft-versus-host assay. The mutant antigen induces strong cell-mediated lymphocytotoxicity. The mutation maps in the K end of the H-2 complex. The capacity of mutant antigens to induce relatively strong lymphocyte proliferation is explained by hypothesizing that the T-cell receptors reacting with K- or D-region products can more easily recognize subtle than drastic alloantigenic differences.

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PubMed1976

Characteristics of the maternal lymphoid response of mice to paternal strain antigens induced by homologous pregnancy.

Mice mated with H-2 incompatible males were shown to have an increased frequency of specific allocluster-forming spleen cells to paternal strain erythrocytes. The time course of the response was similar to that expected following a skin allograft. The graft-versus-host responsiveness of the maternal lymphocytes was generally elevated in the post-partum period in matings with males incompatible at either the H2 locus or non-H2 loci. The implications of these responses with respect to their different lymphocyte mediators and possible interactions are discussed with the view that a B-cell mediated immune response to paternal antigens may be contributory to foetal survival.

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PubMed1977

Suppressor T cells arising in mice undergoing a graft-vs-host response.

We investigated the ability of mice to generate antibody-forming cells when undergoing a graft-vs-host reaction. (C57BL/6 X DBA/2)F1 mice (BDF1) injected with C57BL/6 spleen cells generated suppressor T cells which inhibit antibody synthesis by BDF1 spleen cells in vitro. These T cells arose from the donor inoculum. They differ from helper T cells in size and they act directly on antigen reactive B cells. The suppressor T cells were specifically directed against components of the H-2 region of the reciprocal parental strain (DBA/2 = H-2d) in the hybrid F1 mouse.

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PubMed1976

Partial tolerant state against H-2 disparate cells. No impaired specific reactivity in MLC, GVH, or antibody production.

Injection of CBA mice with H-2-compatible lymphoid cells from C3H hybrids induces a specific reduction of the mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) response of their lymphoytes. This is not the case after injection of H-2-disparate C3H-hybrid cells, presumably because they are rapidly eliminated due to the immune response of the host. This investigation shows that CBA mice injected with CBA X C57Bl cells (H-2-disparate) at an age of 0-3 days, but not older, develop a specifically reduced MLC response after infusion of C3H X C57Bl cells as adults, indicating that they were tolerant to the C57Bl-determined antigens. However, lymphocytes from such mice showed a normal reactivity against C57Bl as assessed by MLC, graft-versus-host tests, and capacity to produce specific antibodies.

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PubMed1976

Immunologic induction of reticulum cell sarcoma: donor-type lymphomas in the graft-versus-host model.

The aim of this study was to investigate malignant lymphomas of donor origin induced in F1 mice undergoing a chronic graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) after injection of parental strain spleen cells. A total of 3 X 10(8) or 4 X 10(8) C57BL/10 spleen cells were administered to 7-8-week-old H-2 incompatible (C57BL/10 X HTG)F1 hybrids either as single or fractionated i.p. injections. Recipients were killed at intervals ranging from 1 month to 1 year after the first injection and their lymphoid cells typed for host-derived and donor-derived histocompatibility antigens. In 49% of the 88 GVH F1 mice, cells failed to be killed by a hyperimmune serum against HTG (H-2g) but reacted normally with antisera to C57BL/10 (H-2b) and, in the 9 cases tested, to theta-C3H. The conclusion that the lymphoid cells of these mice were derived from donor cells was supported by the finding that these animals lacked immunoglobulins bearing host-derived Iga allotype in their serum. Forty-three percent of the GVH F1 mice developed reticulum cell sarcomas (RCS), 32% revealed hyperplastic lymphoreticular tissue, and 25% showed no grossly abnormal changes. Mice with donor-type lymphoid tissues were found in all three groups; 50% of the 38 RCS detected were donor-type neoplasms. The induction of donor-type RCS during the GVHR strengthens the concept of lymphomagenesis through persistent stimulation with antigen(s).

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PubMed1976

[Graft vs host reaction in reciprocal combinations of mouse strains differing by the H-2 complex of histocompatibility].

Intraperitoneal transplantation of 0.5 x 10(7), 1 x 10(7) or 2 x 10(7) spleen cells from the C57BL mice to newborn CBA recipients induced an acute form or runt disease which resulted in the death of 43%, 86% or 95% of the recipient mice, respectively, in the course of 2--3 weeks after the cell transfer. Preliminary immunization of C57BL donors with CBA isoantigens led to a marked enhancement, and immunization with foreign antigens (sheep red blood cells)--to weakening the reaction. In reverse combination of mouse strains the runt disease was 4--5 times less severe and no "preimmunization effect" occurred. In C57BL leads to CBA combination the reaction was accompanied by proliferation of pyroninophilic mononuclears and follicular destruction, while in the CBA leads to C57BL combination-by the retardation of their growth.

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PubMed1976

Genetic control of the antibody response to type III pneumococcal polysaccharide in mice. III. Analysis of genes governing the expression of regulatory T cell activity.

Recombinant-inbred strains of mice, as well as the progenitor strains from which they were derived, were evaluated with respect to the capacity of B cells to respond to an optimally immunogenic dose of Type III pneumococcal polysaccharide (SSS-III) and the amount of suppressor and amplifier T cell activity present. None of these functional activities was found to be linked to genes within the major histocompatibility (H-2) or the IgCH allotype complex, and several autosomal genes appeared to govern the expression of each of these characteristics.

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PubMed1976

Osteopetrosis of microphthalmic mice -- a defect of the hematopoietic stem cell.?

The recessive genes mi and gl in the homozygous state determine, among other phenotypic effects, osteopetrosis in the house mouse. From a stock carrying mi derived from Grüneberg (1963) the mi gene was bred into the standard CBA/H inbred strain. Microphthalmic mice of these two stocks and their hybrids were treated as newborn by intraperitoneal injection and at weaning or maturity by intravenous injection of cell suspensions containing hematopoietic stem cells from phenotypically normal mice. Resolution of much of the osteopetrosis but not the other phenotypic effects occurred within a few months in the majority of cases, provided syngeneic or H-2 compatible allogeneic cells were given: it did not occur spontaneously or on giving H-2 incompatible cells or on giving compatible material by an inappropriate route. The results accord with hypotheses that (1) osteoclasis of scaffoldtype woven bone is impaired in mi mi, (2) that osteoclastic cells are derived through circulating monocytes from hematopoietic stem cells, and (3) in mi mi this defect can be overcome by a transplant of normal hemopoietic stem cells.

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PubMed1977

Generation of suppressor cells in mice immunized with M locus-incompatible lymphocytes.

Alloimmunization of mice with M locus-incompatible lymphocytes resulted in the generation of suppressor cells in the immunized host. Lymph node cells from such alloimmunized mice suppressed the in vitro cytotoxic response of normal cells to H-2 alloantigens. The suppression generated was greater than could be accounted for by dilution of the prekiller cell population with cells possibly devoid of cytotoxic potential from M locus preimmunized mice. Using M locus pseudocongenic mice, the suppressive effect was shown to be largely attributable to M locus determinants; restimulation of suppressor cells in culture with the specific M locus was required for suppression of effector cell generation. The in vivo effect of suppressor cells was tested in a graft-versus-host reaction; injection of M locus preimmunized cells into footpads of F1 hybrid mice suppressed the popliteal lymph node enlargement compared with lymph node size after injection of control preimmunized cells. Although the suppressive effect is mainly attributable to M locus determinants, incompatibility for the DBA/2 antigen may add to the suppression. The study of inhibitory effects on T cell cytotoxicity because of serologically undetectable lymphocyte-activating determinants (Mls) could lead to the better understanding of suppressive mechanisms which may allow the growth of syngeneic tumours.

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