Systemic bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) activates natural suppressor cells.
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 75 (10), 5142-5144
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.75.10.5142
Abstract
Addition of normal C57BL/6 mouse bone marrow cells to an in vitro culture of normal C57BL/6 spleen cells and allogeneic P815-Y [mastocytoma] tumor cells inhibited the development of cell-mediated immunity. BCG enhanced the suppressive activity of these bone marrow cells as early as 2 days after its i.v. administration to donor mice and elicited similar activity in the spleen by 7 days. Concomitant with the appearance of suppressor cells in the spleen there was a decrease in bone marrow cell number and an increase in spleen cell number. While normal spleen cells failed to inhibit immunization, spleen cells from thymectomized, irradiated, bone marrow-reconstituted mice were inhibitory. Administration of BCG further increased the suppressive activity of spleen cells in these T [thymus-derived] cell-deprived mice. From this evidence it appears that systemic administration of BCG activates natural suppressor cells in the bone marrow and elicits suppressor cells in the spleen through the migration and colonization of the spleen by bone marrow elements.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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