title: Distribution of two types of infiltrating helper T cells among rat renal allografts, spleen, peripheral blood, and regional lymph node cells.
abstract: Cytokine production by graft-infiltrating cells (GIC) of helper T cell (Th) subtypes were investigated in rat kidney allograft compared to those infiltrating the spleen, those in peripheral blood, and in regional lymph nodes. The relative proportion of OX-22 positive cells (Th type 1) and the W3/25-positive cells (Th) of GIC was 49.4 +/- 2.1% on day 3 and 52.7 +/- 2.2% on day 6, whereas those in spleen cells was 80.3 +/- 4.1% (p less than 0.05) and 95.5 +/- 2.5% (p less than 0.01), respectively. GIC produced more B cell-stimulating factor 2 (BSF-2, 106.3 +/- 8.2 U/ml) when compared to spleen cells (15.9 +/- 4.6 U/ml; p less than 0.01), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (4.2 +/- 1.0 U/ml; p less than 0.01) or lymph node cells (24.9 +/- 4.0 U/ml; p less than 0.01) upon stimulation with donor BN lymphocytes in vitro. However, GIC produced less interleukin 2 (IL-2, less than 1.0 U/ml) and IL-3 (less than 1.0 U/ml) than produced by spleen cells (5.1 +/- 0.9 U/ml, p less than 0.05, and 10.5 +/- 2.3 U/ml, p less than 0.01, respectively) or lymph node cells (4.5 +/- 0.4 U/ml, p less than 0.01; 23.5 +/- 3.1 U/ml, p less than 0.01, respectively). These results demonstrate that the subtype of Th cells which produce BSF-2 migrates selectively to allografts.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hamashima
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kita
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Imanishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000378:metabolism; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000378:metabolism; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000378:metabolism; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000378:metabolism; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011914:Rats, Inbred BN; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D013154:Spleen / Q000276:immunology; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D007377:Interleukin-3; D015850:Interleukin-6; D007371:Interferon-gamma