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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1981-2-24
pubmed:abstractText
Specific pathogen-free B6D2 mice were infected intravenously with 10(8) viable BCG, M. habana or M. simiae and the level of tuberculin hypersensitivity to 2.5 micrograms PPD or cytoplasmic protein antigens (CPA) prepared from the other organisms was determined using the footpad swelling test with increasing time after infection. This was correlated with the growth or persistence of mycobacterial populations within the liver. Spleen cells were removed from these infected mice and the level of blast transformation following exposure to PHA, PPD or M. habana or M. simiae CPA was measured in vitro. Early in the mycobacterial infections (day 14) thymidine incorporation by the spleen cells was significantly enchanced followed by a profound depression in incorporation rates as the infection progressed. The mechanism of this depressed response involved the production of suppressor T cells in the spleen. In the case of the M. simiae or M. habana infection, cells capable of mediating suppression were still present even after 12 months of infection. In the BCG infection, suppressor T cells declined with time so that by 4 months incorporation rates were back to normal and suppressor cells were no longer detectable in the spleens of the infected animals.
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pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0019-2805
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
367-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Development of suppressor T cells in mice heavily infected with mycobacteria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.