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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-2-2
pubmed:abstractText
A leukocyte population consisting of approximately 85% lymphocytes, prepared from human peripheral blood by centrifugation through a Ficoll-Hypaque gradient, was studied for its capacity to destroy antibody-coated human liver (Chang) cells in vitro. Cytolysis was a rapid event: increased ionic flux (86Rb) from the target cell occurred within 10 min of the addition of effector cells. Kinetic analysis of target cell destruction (51 Cr release) was compatible with a "one hit" hypothesis, thereby indicating that cytolysis resulted from a single collision was an effector cell. The initial rate of cytolysis was linear and related to the number of leukocytes added, but lysis at all of the leukocyte to target cell ratios tested ceased after 5 hr. The number of target cells killed at that time was directly proportional to the number of leukocytes added. While the lytic capacity of the effector population was totally depleted after incubation with antibody-coated target cells, cytotoxicity was not affected by co-culturing leukocytes with Chang cells treated with pre-immune serum. The cytotoxic effector cells functioning in this antibody-dependent lytic system are thus to be contrasted with killer T cells, whose lytic activity is not compromised by interaction with homologous target cells. It was estimated that approximately 4% of the leukocyte population employed could kill antibody-coated Chang cells, a figure consistent with the estimated frequency of "null" cells within human peripheral lymphocytes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
115
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1500-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1975
pubmed:articleTitle
Antibody-dependent cytolytically active human leukocytes: an analysis of inactivation following in vitro interaction with antibody-coated target cells.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.