T lymphocyte-mediated graft--antigraft reactivity during graft-versus- host
reaction in vitro
H von Melchner and K Hoffken
Spleen organ cultures were prepared from lethally irradiated mice that had
been injected with allogeneic bone marrow, with or without lymph node
cells. These cultures were used in the analysis of graft-versus- host
reactions (GVHR) in vitro. It was found that donor-derived T lymphocytes,
which had been grown in an allogeneic spleen, prevented hemopoietic
progenitor cells (colony-forming cells, CFC) of the recipient from
differentiating in agar cultures. Furthermore, these lymphocytes were found
to inhibit growth and differentiation of CFCs of the same donor. This
graft-antigraft reactivity was not abolished by monoclonal anti-Thy-1 plus
complement (C'), in contrast to the conventional GVHR. This indicates that
the graft-versus-graft reaction depends on "de novo" generation of mature T
lymphocyte effector cells from transplanted graft precursors.
Volume 63,
Issue 4,
pp. 812-817,
04/01/1984
Copyright © 1984 by The American Society of Hematology