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The proliferative capacities of popliteal lymph node lymphocytes and of their functionally distinct T-cell subpopulations from young-adult and old mice.

Abstract：

:Young adult and old mice were immunized by footpad injection of dinitrophenyl-conjugated bovine gamma-globulin (DNP-BGG) in complete Freund's adjuvant. A comparison of lymph node weight and total number of nucleated cells per lymph node as a function of time after antigen injection demonstrated a significantly greater absolute increase in lymph node weight and peak number of nucleated cells per lymph node in young-adult than in old animals. However, as judged by this increase in total nucleated cells, other than being delayed in old mice, the magnitude of these in situ proliferative responses appeared comparable for young-adult and old mice. That is, the antigen-stimulated to non-stimulated cell ratio did not differ significantly between young-adult and old animals. This was because lymph nodes from old animals prior to antigen injection always weighed less and had fewer numbers of nucleated cells compared with young-adult animals. Therefore, the in vitro cellular proliferative response of three T-cell-enriched lymphocyte subpopulations from young-adult and old mice was further characterized. This was done by measuring [3H]thymidine incorporation following antigen- (DNP-BGG)- or mitogen-[phytohemagglutinin (PHA) or Concanavalin A (Con A)]-induced proliferation and assessing their quantitative and/or qualitative requirements for macrophages. In contrast to the markedly reduced proliferation of the two T-cell subpopulations from popliteal lymph nodes which respond to PHA and Con A in old animals primed 21-days earlier with DNP-BGG, antigen-induced in vitro cellular proliferation of the small T-cell subset in old mice specifically responsive to the immunizing antigen DNP-BGG always responded as well as, if not better than, cells from young-adult mice.

journal_name

Mech Ageing Dev

journal_title

Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors

Perkins EH,Glover PL

doi

10.1016/0047-6374(83)90072-6

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-02-01 00:00:00

pages

169-82

issue

eissn

0047-6374

issn

1872-6216

pii

0047-6374(83)90072-6

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The proliferative capacities of popliteal lymph node lymphocytes and of their functionally distinct T-cell subpopulations from young-adult and old mice.