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Proliferation and apoptosis of follicular lymphocytes: relationship to follicular dendritic cell-associated clusters.

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:Experiments were designed to determine the in vivo cell-cycle phase of lymphocytes in secondary lymphoid follicles, and whether B-cell proliferation and apoptosis occur within follicular dendritic cell (FDC)-associated clusters. Using frozen serial sections of human tonsils, lymphoid follicles were stained to reveal histone H3 mRNA, as an S-phase marker, using in situ hybridization, and stained immunohistochemically with antibodies against cyclin E as a late G1 phase marker, cyclin B1 and p34cdc2 as S-G2-M phase markers, and Ki-67 as a marker of cycling cells. Each LF was divided into five zones: mantle zone, outer zone, apical light zone, basal light zone and dark zone, with the help of haematoxylin and eosin staining, and a CD23 immunostain. The rate of occurrence of positively labelled cells was calculated by dividing the number of positive cells by the number of all cells in each zone. The cells that were positive for cyclin E, histone H3 mRNA, cyclin B1, p34cdc2, and Ki-67 were found most frequently in the dark zone (54.5 +/- 6.6%, 22.0 +/- 5.7%, 36.7 +/- 14.5%, 40.0 +/- 10.2%, and 59.0 +/- 13.4%, respectively), followed by the outer zone (52.7 +/- 7.8%, 14.9 +/- 4.1%, 22.9 +/- 9.7%, 24.9 +/- 7.9%, and 44.6 +/- 12.3%, respectively), showing that both the outer zone and the dark zone contain many proliferating lymphocytes. Furthermore, FDC-associated clusters and free lymphocytes were obtained from enucleated germinal centres, using enzymatic digestion. The rates of occurrence of cells that were positive for cyclin B1 and Ki-67 within the clusters (7.2 +/- 1.9% and 37.9 +/- 10.5% respectively) were significantly lower than those of free lymphocytes outside the clusters (22.2 +/- 4.0% and 62.8 +/- 14.0%, respectively). The rates of occurrence of apoptotic bodies and cells within the clusters, as detected by in situ tailing or in situ nick translation (0.2 +/- 0.4% and 0.4 +/- 0.4%, respectively) were significantly lower than those outside the clusters (1.1 +/- 0.3, 1.6 +/- 0.5%, respectively). These results suggest that FDC-associated clusters are not the site of proliferation, and that they rarely contain apoptotic bodies and cells of B lymphocytes.

journal_name

Immunology

journal_title

Immunology

authors

Orui H,Yamakawa M,Imai Y

doi

10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00203.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-04-01 00:00:00

pages

489-95

issue

eissn

0019-2805

issn

1365-2567

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Proliferation and apoptosis of follicular lymphocytes: relationship to follicular dendritic cell-associated clusters.