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Intrathymic T cell repertoire after prenatal trinitrobenzene-sulfonic acid-treatment.

Abstract：

:It is still a matter of debate, whether tolerance toward self-non-MHC antigens is due to intrathymic deletion or to regulatory processes in the periphery. To further pursue this question, responsiveness toward TNP and an anti-TNP monoclonal antibody (Sp6) carrying a recurrent idiotype was evaluated in prenatally trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS)-treated mice. In prenatally untreated as well as in TNBS-treated mice, thymocytes proliferating in the absence of nominal antigen were double negative (L3T4-/Lyt2-), but antigen-specific thymocytes were single positive (L3T4+/Lyt2- or L3T4-/Lyt2+). TNBS-treated mice differed from controls inasmuch as in their first week of life T cells proliferating in response to TNP were found in the thymus and detected at increased frequencies in the spleen. The frequency of TNP-specific thymocytes and spleen cells declined rapidly, finally reaching in the spleen a level of 20-30% of controls. Furthermore, after antigenic stimulation, the frequency of thymocytes and spleen cells proliferating in response to TNP was found to be increased in control mice, but TNP-specific T cell were no more recovered in the thymus or the spleen of tolerized mice. The same accounted for thymic and splenic T cells proliferating in response to Sp6. They were expanded in control mice after antigenic stimulation, but were undetectable in TNBS-treated mice. Thus, T cells with specificity for an internal (Sp6) and an external (TNP) antigen, provided the latter was present during ontogeny, were detected in the thymus of control and, transiently, in the thymus of tolerized mice. But, the fate of antigen-specific thymocytes was different in prenatally untreated and TNBS-treated mice. The data are interpreted in the sense that tolerance toward non-MHC antigens may be acquired subsequently to tolerance toward self-MHC antigens and possibly after imprinting of antigen specificity.

journal_name

Cell Immunol

journal_title

Cellular immunology

authors

Zöller M

doi

10.1016/0008-8749(90)90298-6

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-03-01 00:00:00

pages

31-46

issue

eissn

0008-8749

issn

1090-2163

pii

0008-8749(90)90298-6

journal_volume

126

pub_type

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Intrathymic T cell repertoire after prenatal trinitrobenzene-sulfonic acid-treatment.