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Immunosuppression and lymphoid hypoplasia associated with chronic graft versus host disease is dependent upon IFN-gamma production
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Immunosuppression and lymphoid hypoplasia associated with chronic graft versus host disease is dependent upon IFN-gamma production

G. R Klimpel, C. R Annable, M. G Cleveland, T. R Jerrells and J. C Patterson
The Journal of immunology (1950), Vol.144(1), pp.84-93
1990
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.144.1.84
PMID: 2104894
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Abstract

We have previously shown that both IFN-gamma and IFN-beta are produced in vivo and in vitro by spleen cells obtained from mice experiencing a chronic form of graft vs host disease (GVHD). Further, we have shown that in vitro production of IFN-beta by spleen cells from GVHD mice may play a role in the suppressed in vitro mitogen responsiveness of these cells. This study was undertaken to investigate if treatment of such mice with mAb to IFN-gamma or IFN-beta could alter the immunosuppression or lymphoid hypoplasia associated with chronic GVHD. GVHD was induced across minor histocompatibilities by the i.v. injection of B10.D2 spleen cells into sublethally irradiated BALB/c mice. These mice were given daily injections for 20 days of one of the following: 1) mAb to IFN-gamma, 2) mAb to IFN-beta, or 3) control IgG. Histologic examination of these mice at 21 to 22 days post transplantation revealed that mice treated with mAb to IFN-beta or control IgG had dramatic hypoplasia of the thymus, spleen, and lymph nodes which was similar to untreated GVHD mice. Mice given mAb to IFN-gamma, however, had no lymphoid hypoplasia and had a near normal gross and histologic appearance of their thymus, spleen, and lymph node tissue when compared with syngeneic controls. In vitro mitogen-induced proliferative responses of spleen and lymph node cells obtained from GVHD mice or GVHD mice treated with mAb to IFN-beta were severely suppressed or absent. In contrast, spleen and lymph node cells from GVHD mice given mAb to IFN-gamma were capable of giving a significant in vitro proliferative response to Con A, PHA, and LPS. Further, natural suppressor cell activity and spontaneous production of IFN-beta, a characteristic of this form of GVHD, was absent in spleen cells obtained from GVHD mice treated with mAb to IFN-gamma. These results further identify the IFN as playing critical roles in the pathogenesis of GVHD.
 Immunobiology Biological and medical sciences Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Fundamental immunology Modulation of the immune response (stimulation, suppression)

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