Suppression of Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity by Splenocytes from Corynebacterium Parvum -Injected, Bone Marrow-Tolerant, and Infant Mice

  • Savary C
  • Lotzova E
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Natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity to YAC-1 lymphoma was investigated in mice tolerant to bone marrow grafts (BM-tolerant), Corynebacterium parvum- (C. parvum) treated mice, and infant mice. Also the comparison was made between the NK cells and the hemopoietic-resistance effector (HR-E) cells. It was found that the BM-tolerant mice and C. parvum-treated mice showed either no or markedly decreased NK cell cytotoxicity. These mice were also nonresponders to bone marrow grafts in vivo. The lack of or decreased reactivity was apparently caused by the regulatory cell activities of the suppressor cell since the splenocytes from C. parvum-treated and BM-tolerant mice suppressed significantly the cytotoxic activities of otherwise fully functional NK cells. Similar suppressive effect on NK cells was mounted by splenocytes from infant mice, indicating again the suppressor cell regulation of NK cell cytotoxicity.

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Savary, C. A., & Lotzova, E. (1978). Suppression of Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity by Splenocytes from Corynebacterium Parvum -Injected, Bone Marrow-Tolerant, and Infant Mice. The Journal of Immunology, 120(1), 239–243. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.120.1.239

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