TY - JOUR
T1 - Sequential changes of thymocyte surface antigens with presence or absence of graft-vs-host reaction following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
AU - Onoé, Kazunori
AU - Fernandes, Gabriel
AU - Shen, Fung Win
AU - Good, Robert A.
N1 - Funding Information:
’ Aided by USPHSR Grants AI-l 1843, NS-11457, AC-00541, and AG-03021 from the National Institutes of Health; the March of Dimes-Birth Defects Foundation; the Zelda Radow Weintraub Cancer Fund; and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation-New Frontiers Fund. * Present address: Institute of Immunological Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan. ’ Present address: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 N.E. 13th. St., Oklahoma City, OK 73104.
PY - 1982/4
Y1 - 1982/4
N2 - Lethally irradiated AKR mice were reconstituted with C57BL/6 bone marrow cells. Though the allogeneic marrow transplantation protected AKR recipients from acute irradiation deaths, the mice given unmanipulated marrow developed severe GVHR disease, and 80% died within 50 days. The thymus and spleen from the recipient mice, following recovery of body weight between the 10th and 20th days, gradually involuted and became miniscule after Day 30. Thymocytes from recipients were found to be entirely of donor cell type by Day 15. Thereafter, however, as the graft versus host reaction (GVHR) developed, changes in sensitivity of the thymocytes to four different alloantisera directed toward donor histocompatibility antigens (H-2b, Thy 1.2, Lyt 1.2, and Lyt 2.2) were observed and these changes were associated with changes in antigen expression or quantity of Thy 1 antigens on the thymocytes. A different pattern of changes was observed in antigen expression on thymocytes in mice given B6 marrow cells that had been pretreated with anti-Thy 1 serum which prevented initiation of graft-vs-host disease and in the mice which received marrow not so treated and which regularly led to graft-vs-host disease. By contrast, the amount of H-2 antigen on the thymocytes from chimeras with or without GVHR was elevated equally. The mechanisms of these changes are discussed.
AB - Lethally irradiated AKR mice were reconstituted with C57BL/6 bone marrow cells. Though the allogeneic marrow transplantation protected AKR recipients from acute irradiation deaths, the mice given unmanipulated marrow developed severe GVHR disease, and 80% died within 50 days. The thymus and spleen from the recipient mice, following recovery of body weight between the 10th and 20th days, gradually involuted and became miniscule after Day 30. Thymocytes from recipients were found to be entirely of donor cell type by Day 15. Thereafter, however, as the graft versus host reaction (GVHR) developed, changes in sensitivity of the thymocytes to four different alloantisera directed toward donor histocompatibility antigens (H-2b, Thy 1.2, Lyt 1.2, and Lyt 2.2) were observed and these changes were associated with changes in antigen expression or quantity of Thy 1 antigens on the thymocytes. A different pattern of changes was observed in antigen expression on thymocytes in mice given B6 marrow cells that had been pretreated with anti-Thy 1 serum which prevented initiation of graft-vs-host disease and in the mice which received marrow not so treated and which regularly led to graft-vs-host disease. By contrast, the amount of H-2 antigen on the thymocytes from chimeras with or without GVHR was elevated equally. The mechanisms of these changes are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0008-8749(82)90106-X
DO - 10.1016/0008-8749(82)90106-X
M3 - Article
C2 - 7046951
AN - SCOPUS:0020072661
VL - 68
SP - 207
EP - 219
JO - Cellular Immunology
JF - Cellular Immunology
SN - 0008-8749
IS - 2
ER -