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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Mechanisms underlying the depressed production of interleukin-2 in spleen and lymph node cell cultures of mice infected with Mycobacterium bovis BCG
Beteiligte:
Turcotte, R;
Legault, D
Erschienen:
American Society for Microbiology, 1986
Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Mice were infected intravenously with 1.0 mg of Mycobacterium bovis BCG. At various times thereafter, spleen and peripheral lymph node cells were stimulated with concanavalin A for 18 to 20 h, and their capacity to produce interleukin-2 (IL-2) was evaluated by means of a T-cell blast proliferation technique. A depression of IL-2 production that was complete in the spleen but partial in lymph node cell cultures occurred at 2 to 3 weeks and persisted till weeks 8 to 10 after infection. No direct evidence was found for an active suppressor mechanism depressing in vitro the production of IL-2. In spleen cell cultures the suppression of IL-2 production would result from a functional defect of the IL-2-producing T-cell subset, whereas in lymph node cell cultures the depression mainly results from a relative lack of IL-2-producing cells caused by an accumulation of immunoglobulin-positive and "null" cells. Spleen cells from BCG-infected mice maintained their capacity to acquire IL-2 receptors when activated by concanavalin A.</jats:p>