title: Antigen-specific protection against graft-vs-host induced immune deficiency.
abstract: A severe, antigen-nonspecific, and long-lasting immune-deficient state can be induced in healthy, adult immune-competent F1 hybrid mice by a single i.v. injection of parental T lymphocytes. The present report demonstrates that this graft-vs-host-induced immune deficiency (GVHID) can be prevented in an antigen-specific way by immunization of the F1 mice with allogeneic cells before induction of GVHID. Thus, spleen cells from (A X B)F1 mice primed with allogeneic cells from strain C and then injected with parental spleen cells from A did not generate cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to trinitophenyl-modified self cells or to allogeneic cells from third party strains D or E. However, spleen cells from the same mice generated normal levels of cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity to allogeneic cells from C, the strain used for immunization. Furthermore, mice exposed to murine cytomegalovirus before induction of GVHID were resistant to a subsequent challenge with murine cytomegalovirus, whereas GVHID mice that received only the murine cytomegalovirus challenge all died. These findings are discussed with respect to the possibilities that primed and unprimed T helper cells may be differentially susceptible to the suppressive effects of GVH.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000378:metabolism; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000276:immunology*; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000276:immunology; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D006087:Graft vs Host Reaction; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000276:immunology*; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D013154:Spleen / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000956:Antigens, Viral; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D007376:Interleukin-2