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2. Immunological tolerance then and now: was the Medawar school right?
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Nossal, G. J. V.
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IMMUNOLOGICAL tolerance , *IMMUNOLOGY , *T cells , *IMMUNE response , *B cells , *IMMUNOGLOBULINS , *BONE marrow , *ANTIGENS , *GENETIC mutation - Abstract
As perhaps the staunchest advocates of repertoire purging as the central mechanism of immunological tolerance, we note with satisfaction a spate of recent, elegant papers which suggest an intrathymic clonal abortion model as the explanation for at least some examples of T-cell tolerance. This view agrees with the classical formulation of the Billingham-Brent-Medawar school of tolerance as a specific, central failure of immune responsiveness. Repertoire purging within the B-lymphocyte compartment remains much more controversial. There is no doubt that experimental models exist where the B cell is the reversible target of tolerance induction. The question is, in view of the ease of inducing autoantibody formation both in vivo and in vitro, just how relevant are such clonal anergy mechanisms to authentic self-tolerance? Arguments are presented that there must be two windows of tolerance susceptibility in the ontogeny of the B cell; one while it is maturing in the bone marrow, to prevent autoreactivity of high affinity to important accessible self-antigens; and a second soon after activation of pre-memory cells by exogenous antigen, to prevent fortuitous mutations towards high-affinity anti-self-reactivity establishing a forbidden clone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1989
3. HLA-linked immune suppression in humans.
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Sasazuki, T., Kikuchi, I., Hirayama, K., Matsushita, S., Ohta, N., and Nishimura, Y.
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HLA histocompatibility antigens , *IMMUNOSUPPRESSION , *IMMUNOGLOBULINS , *T cells , *ANTIGENS , *IMMUNE response - Abstract
There is no doubt that HLA-DR molecules are acting as the products of HLA-linked immune response genes (Ir-genes), because (i) HLA-DR molecules are the restriction elements in the interaction between CD4+ helper T cells and antigen-presenting cells (APC) to respond to many antigens such as streptococcal cell wall antigen (SCW) (Nishimura & Sasazuki, 1983; Sone et al., 1985; Hizayama et al., 1986), schistosomal antigen (Sj) (Hirayama et al., 1987), Mycobacterium leprae antigen (ML) (Kikuchi et al., 1986) and so on; and (ii) anti-HLA-DR monoclonal antibodies completely abolish the immune response to those antigens (Nishimura & Sasazuki, 1983; Sone et al., 1985). However, genetic analysis of the immune response to those antigens in families or populations revealed that responsiveness is recessive and non-responsiveness to those antigens is a dominant genetic trait that is tightly linked to HLA (Sasazuki et al., 1980a, 1983; Watanabe et al., 1988). This is completely opposite to the situation under the Ir-gene control where responsiveness is dominant and non-responsiveness is recessive. In this paper, we report evidence of how we came across the concept of HLA-linked immune suppression genes (Is-genes) besides Ir-genes, and show evidence for the epistatic interaction between HLA-DR and DQ to determine the immune response to several antigens in humans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1989
4. Studies on the differentiation of T lymphocytes in sheep I. RECOGNITION OF A SHEEP T-LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN BY A MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY T-80.
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Miyasaka, M., Heron, I., Dudler, L., Cahill, R.N.P., Forni, L., Knaak, T., and Trnka, Z.
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T cells , *CELL differentiation , *ANTIGENS , *MONOCLONAL antibodies , *IMMUNOGLOBULINS , *CELL migration - Abstract
The results presented in this paper demonstrate that a mouse IgM monoclonal antibody (T-80) recognizes an antigen on cells of the T-lymphocyte lineage of sheep. However, this antibody does not identify all T cells, as 10-20% of thymocytes and some peripheral-blood T cells are negative. T-80- thymocytes reside in the medulla. The majority of cortical thymocytes are T-80+ and classified as dull cells on the basis of antigen density per cell as measured by flow microfluorometry. In contrast, T-80+ cells in the periphery can be categorized into two populations, i.e., dull cells and bright cells. Suggestive evidence was obtained that bright T-80+ cells are fast recirculating T cells, whereas dull ceils are sessile or less easily mobilizable T cells in the periphery. In foetal environment, over 90% of thymocytes and approximately 5% of spleen cells are T-80+ at 54 days of gestation (gestation period = 150 days), which may indicate that T-cell emigration from the thymus commences well before mid-gestation in sheep. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1983
5. <em>In vitro</em> responses to the liver antigen F.
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Sunshine, G.H., Cyrus, Muriel, and Winchester, Guil
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ANTIGENS , *LIVER , *AUTOIMMUNITY , *CELL proliferation , *T cells , *IMMUNOGLOBULINS - Abstract
In this paper we describe the first in vitro response to the liver alloantigen F. The anti-F response serves as a valuable model for autoimmune phenomena since priming appropriate strains of mice (responders) with allogeneic but not syngeneic type F leads to autoantibody production. The in vitro system is based on the proliferation of T cells, from mice primed in vivo with F, when coincubated with splenic adherent cells (SAC) prepulsed with F in vivo. The system displays two important correlates of the in vivo antibody response to F:1.T cells from mice primed with syngeneic F do not proliferate when incubated with SAC prepulsed with syngeneic F and 2. Mice that do not make antibody responses to allo F in vivo (DBA/2) do not show in vitro proliferative responses. These findings indicate that the proliferative assay is a good in vitro model for the F response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1982
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