Cytotoxic T-cell precursors revealed in neonatally tolerant mice.

AUTOR(ES)

Stockinger, B

RESUMO

Induction of neonatal tolerance leads to a profound reduction in cytotoxic T-lymphocyte precursor frequencies against the tolerated alloantigen ("tolerogen") as evaluated by limiting-dilution analysis. The curves obtained were linear within the range tested and, thus, did not yield evidence for any dissociation of cytotoxic precursors from regulatory cell populations. However, it could be shown that cytotoxic T-lymphocyte precursor frequencies against the tolerogen increased drastically if the tolerant spleen cells were adsorbed, prior to limiting-dilution culture, on monolayers of syngeneic blasts expressing receptors for the tolerogen but not if they were adsorbed on syngeneic blasts against third-party antigens. This finding implies that cytotoxic precursor cells against the tolerogen are not clonally deleted in tolerant animals but rather are suppressed by a regulatory cell population that is present at high frequency and presumably acts in an anti-idiotypic fashion.

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