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Regulation of secondary antibody responses in rodents I. POTENTIATION OF IgG PRODUCTION BY CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE.
- Source :
- Clinical & Experimental Immunology; Jul1979, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p89-97, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 1979
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Abstract
- This paper describes the effects of a single dose of cyclophosphamide on specific IgG production in rats during an established secondary immune response. (PVG × Agus)F<subscript>1</subscript> rats were immunized twice (days 0 and 28) with chicken erythrocytes (CRBC), received cyclophosphamide (100 mg/m² of body surface area) on day 33 and were killed 8 days later. The production of anti-CRBC IgG antibodies was assessed by testing the supernatants of spleen cell cultures in a cytotoxicity assay with <superscript>51</superscript>Cr-labelled CRBC as target cells and normal rat spleen cells as effector cells. In observations of fifty-nine pairs of treated and untreated rats from eight separate experiments, the administration of cyclophospharnide resulted in: (1) a decrease in the number of spleen cell to a median of 108.63 from a median of 10<superscript>8.7</superscript> (P < 0.0025); (2) an increase in the anti-CRBC IgG antibody titre of the supernatants of cultured spleen cells to a median of 10<superscript>0.67</superscript> from a median of 10<superscript>0.27</superscript> (P < 0.0025); and (3) the calculated anti-CRBC IgG antibody production per spleen to be increased in the drug-treated rats to a median of 10<superscript>2.26</superscript> from a median of 10<superscript>2.0</superscript> (P < 0.005). In a cyclophosphamide dose-response study, it was shown that some enhancement of antibody production was induced by doses between 12.5 and 50 mg/m² and consistently elevated levels of antibody production were associated with doses between 100 and 400 mg/m². [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RATS
BLOOD cells
CELL culture
IMMUNOGLOBULIN G
AMIDES
LYMPHOID tissue
IMMUNE response
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00099104
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Clinical & Experimental Immunology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16099808