Failure of NZB spleen to respond to prethymic bone marrow suppressor cells
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Failure of NZB spleen to respond to prethymic bone marrow suppressor cells
Abstract
Mouse bone marrow contains theta-negative lymphocytes that can suppress an in vitro plaque response by spleen cells primed in vivo with burro red blood cells (BRBC). These bone marrow cells are radiosensitive and can be induced with thymosin fraction 5 or alpha 1 thymic peptides to express the theta antigen. Enrichment for these suppressor pre-T lymphocytes can be achieved by a one-step density centrifugation, macrophage depletion, or a combination of both procedures. NZB mice, which spontaneously develop an autoimmune disorder, have a suppressor abnormality revealed by this assay system. Upon analysis, they have normal BM pre-T suppressor cells but their spleen cells are refractory to the BM suppressor signal. NZB BM suppressor cells inhibit the response by DBA/2 spleen cells, but DBA/2 BM suppressor cells do not inhibit NZB spleen. This resistance to suppression is a property of the B cell fraction recovered from NZB spleen.
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