title: Suppression of delayed type hypersensitivity to herpes simplex virus type 1 following immunization with anti-idiotypic antibody: an example of split tolerance.
abstract: Intraperitoneal (i.p.) immunization with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) or an anti-idiotypic antibody (anti-id C) prepared against a monoclonal antibody specific for glycoprotein C of HSV-1, tolerizes mice for an HSV-1 delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response. This tolerization could be adoptively transferred to naive X-irradiated mice by splenic T cells, and was specific for HSV-1 DTH. Thus, DTH-tolerized mice responded to vaccinia virus or HSV-2 challenge, while remaining tolerized for HSV-1 DTH. In addition, these animals demonstrated a form of split tolerance such that HSV antibody, cytotoxic T cell and lymphoproliferative responses were detected in vitro. Thus, anti-id C induced a T cell population capable of specifically suppressing the HSV-1 DTH response, mimicking the effect of i.p. and intravenous immunization with HSV-1 found previously.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000276:immunology*; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007114:Immunization; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D010641:Phenotype; D011817:Rabbits; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes