ABNORMAL STEM-CELLS IN AUTOIMMUNE-PRONE MICE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PREMATURE THYMIC INVOLUTION
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 7 (3), 151-160
Abstract
Autoimmune-prone mice show premature thymic involution, including morphological and functional abnormalities. To determine why the thymic abnormalities develop in autoimmune-prone mice, transplantation of the thymus and/or bone marrow was performed. When thymuses of newborn MRL/1 (H-2k) mice were grafted into C3H/HeN nu/nu(H-2k) mice, the engrafted thymuses did not show the abnormalities which characterize the thymus in the autoimmune-prone MRL/1 mice. When thymuses of newborn C3H/HeN or MRL/n mice were grafted into MRL/1 mice, the engrafted thymuses developed after an interval of 3 mo. the same morphological abnormalities as were seen in MRL/1 mice. Thus, premature involution of the thymus in autoimmune-prone mice may not be a genetically determined abnormality intrinsic to the thymus, but rather an abnormality secondary to other events occurring in these mice. When bone marrow of young C3H/HeN nu/nu mice was transplanted into irradiated (850 rad) MRL/1 mice, neither thymic abnormalities nor autoimmune diseases developed. Therefore, it seems likely that abnormal stem cells in autoimmune-prone mice induce thymic abnormalities, and these are associated with the development of autoimmune diseases.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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