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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-12-3
pubmed:abstractText
The deposition of particulate antigen into the dog lung induces a large accumulation of antigen-specific-forming cells in immunized lung lobes. The results of our previous studies with dogs indicate that these cells are recruited to the immunized lung lobes from the blood. The present study was designed to determine if the recruitment of immune cells to the lung is antigen-specific, or if changes occur in the lung after immunization that allow immune cells to enter the lung nonspecifically. Dogs were immunized in the left and right cardiac lung lobes with antigenically different particulate antigens. The number of lymphoid cells producing antibody to each antigen and the concentrations of antigen-specific antibody were measured in the immunized lung lobes and in a control lung lobe at 5 through 14 days after immunization. Similar numbers of antibody-forming cells and concentrations of antibody to both antigens were found in each immunized lung lobe, regardless of which antigen was used for immunization. These results indicate that antigen exposure alters the lung to allow a nonspecific recruitment of immune cells from the blood into the immunized lung lobes, regardless of antigen specificity. These data also provide further evidence that the antibody-forming cells found in the lung lavage fluid after localized immunization are produced in the thoracic lymph nodes or other systemic lymphoid tissues, rather than locally in lymphoid tissues in the deep lung.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0003-0805
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
126
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
635-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Recruitment of antibody-forming cells in the lung after local immunization is nonspecific.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.