title: Human recombinant interleukin-2(125) induced in vitro proliferation of equine, caprine, ovine, canine and feline peripheral blood lymphocytes.
abstract: Equine, caprine, ovine, canine and feline peripheral blood lymphocytes were evaluated in a short term dose-response study for their in vitro blastogenic responsiveness to human recombinant interleukin-2(125) (HrIL-2(125] alone or in combination with phytohemagglutinin-P, concanavalin-A, and pokeweed mitogen. HrIL-2(125) induced lymphocyte proliferation in all of the animals tested. The magnitude of the proliferative response varied among the species of animal tested. In all cases the proliferative response was dependent on the concentration of HrIL-2(125). HrIL-2(125) at a minimum concentration of 10(2) Cetus Units (CU)/ml produced a significant proliferative response in isolated horse, goat and sheep lymphocytes. In cat and dog lymphocytes, a concentration of 10(3) CU/ml was necessary to induce a significant proliferative response. Maximal lymphocyte proliferation was reached in horses and sheep at a concentration of 10(4) CU/ml of HrIL-2(125). In goats, cats, and dogs a maximum proliferative response was found to be at a concentration equal to or greater than 10(4) CU/ml of HrIL-2. Co-stimulation of lymphocytes with mitogens and submaximal concentrations of HrIL-2(125) (10 CU/ml) induced a synergistic proliferative response which in nearly all cases was significantly greater (P less than 0.05) than the arithmetic sum of the responses induced by the same concentration of the mitogens and HrIL-2(125) alone. The two exceptions were co-stimulation of feline lymphocytes with concanavalin-A and co-stimulation of canine lymphocytes with pokeweed mitogen.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616.
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Fenwick
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Schore
authors.forename: B I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Osburn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats / Q000276:immunology; D004285:Dogs / Q000276:immunology; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D006041:Goats / Q000276:immunology; D006736:Horses / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000187:drug effects*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D012756:Sheep / Q000276:immunology; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D011994:Recombinant Proteins