title: The effects of autacoids on cloned murine lymphoid cells: modulation of IL 2 secretion and the activity of natural suppressor cells.
abstract: The pharmacologic effects of histamine and isoproterenol (autacoids) were studied on clones of murine T helper (TH) and natural suppressor (NS) cells. The data are consistent with receptors for the autacoids being nonrandomly distributed on phenotypically and functionally distinct clones. The effects of histamine on IL 2 secretion by TH cells could be either inhibitory or stimulatory, depending on the conditions of incubation with the autacoid. When TH cells were pretreated with histamine, their secretion of IL 2 was augmented; conversely, if histamine was added to the TH cells in the presence of antigen, IL 2 secretion was inhibited. The suppressor function of NS cells was enhanced by preincubation with histamine (10(-4) M) for 4 hr before the washed NS cells were added to responder and stimulator cells in mixed lymphocyte cultures. Two H1 receptor antagonists, mepyramine (10(-6) M) and pyrobutamine (10(-7) M), each competitively blocked the histamine activation of the NS cells, but an H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine (10(-5) M) did not alter the suppressor-enhancing function of histamine. Activation of NS cells did not occur if histamine was added with responder, stimulator, and co-cultured cells in MLR. The effects of each autacoid were additive in cytolytic T cells alone. The adenylate cyclase pools that can be stimulated by isoproterenol and histamine in cytolytic T cells may be independent of each other, but further work will be needed to prove this point.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Melmon
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Fathman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hertel-Wulff
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strober
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006632:Histamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D006635:Histamine H2 Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000378:metabolism; D050378:T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists; D006635:Histamine H2 Antagonists; D007376:Interleukin-2; D006632:Histamine; D007545:Isoproterenol