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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-10-15
pubmed:abstractText
BALB/c mice develop specific and relatively long lasting immunity after exposure to sublethal numbers of viable Listeria monocytogenes. This immunity can be passively transferred to naive recipients with maximal protection conferred by spleen cells obtained from donors 6 days after immunization. Immunity that can be directly transferred to syngeneic recipients is surprisingly short lived. Cell recipients lose immunity as early as 72 hr after transfer, and recipients express no detectable immunity after 1 wk. This short lived immunity requires both L3T4+ and Lyt-2+ T cell populations for full expression. Both the level of immunity transferred and the duration of the protective response expressed in recipients are dramatically increased if the spleen cell population is cultured in vitro with concanavalin A before cell transfer. Recipients of concanavalin A-activated cells express antigen-specific levels of immunity increased 100- to 1000-fold compared with syngeneic recipients of directly transferred immune spleen cells. In addition, this elevated level of adoptively transferred immunity remains constant for at least 8 wk. Transfer of this culture-enhanced immunity requires only an Lyt-2+ T cell population and is not influenced by cells of the L3T4+T cell subpopulation. Both direct as well as culture-enhanced transfer of immunity require major histocompatibility complex-compatible recipients. These findings suggest that two phenotypically distinct T cell subpopulations function in the development of the immune response to L. monocytogenes and that only one cell subpopulation is required for expression of immunity to this intracellular parasite.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
139
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2005-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Adoptive transfer of immunity to Listeria monocytogenes. The influence of in vitro stimulation on lymphocyte subset requirements.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.