Sentences with phrase «cd4 ko»

Spleen cells were isolated 7 — 14 days after C57BL / 6 CD4 KO mice had rejected BALB / c corneal allografts and were tested for anti - BALB / c CTL in a conventional 4 - hr 51Cr - release assay using BALB / c corneal epithelial and endothelial target cells.

The results indicated that 54 % (38/70) of the BALB / c corneal allografts underwent rejection in the CD4 KO hosts, while 100 % of the grafts were rejected in wild - type C57BL / 6 mice (Figure 1).

Both CD8 − and CD8 + T cells from CD4 KO corneal allograft rejector mice mediated corneal allograft rejection following adoptive transfer to nude mice.

The extensive apoptosis of allogeneic corneal endothelial cells by CD8 − T cells from CD4 KO mice was perplexing, as this cell population should not contain CD4 + cells.

However, in vitro assays using spleen cells from CD4 KO mice that had rejected BALB / c corneal allografts failed to detect CTL activity against donor corneal epithelial or endothelial cells.

Histopathological examination of rejected corneal allografts in CD4 KO mice revealed a mixed inflammatory infiltrate containing large numbers of neutrophils and mononuclear cells, which was indistinguishable from the infiltrate seen in rejected corneal allografts in wild - type mice (data not shown).

In CD4 KO mice, T cell - independent rejection can involve either CD8 + or CD8 − T cells.

Indeed, our results indicate that adoptive transfer of CD8 + T cells from CD4 KO mice that had rejected corneal allografts resulted in the rejection of 95 % of the corneal allografts transplanted to athymic recipients.

Accordingly, spleens were collected from either naïve C57BL / 6 CD4 KO mice or CD4 KO mice that had rejected BALB / c corneal allografts 7 to 14 days earlier.

The CD8 + T cells were already primed, as they were collected from CD4 KO mice that had rejected corneal allografts and thus, may have functioned differently from CD8 + T cells from naïve CD4 KO mice.

The role of DN T cells in corneal allograft rejection was confirmed in two separate in vitro assays in which CD8 − cells were isolated from CD4 KO donors that had rejected corneal allografts and were found to induce apoptosis of donor - specific corneal cells.

The present findings are derived from studies using CD4KO mice and thus, raise the question as to whether the CD4 + T cell - independent immune mechanisms in CD4 KO mice differ from those involved in corneal allograft rejection in wild - type mice whose CD4 + T cells population have been depleted with monoclonal antibodies.

The results of a typical experiment are shown in Figure 3 and demonstrate that even though spleen cells from CD4 KO mice could adoptively transfer corneal allograft rejection, they did not display conventional CTL activity against either BALB / c corneal epithelial or endothelial cells.

Spleen cells were collected from CD4 KO mice 7 — 14 days after they had rejected BALB / c corneal allografts.

In our study, CD8 − T cells from CD4 KO rejector mice failed to display CTL or DTH activity, yet they were capable of inducing donor - specific apoptosis of corneal endothelial cells.

The present demonstration of T cell - mediated apoptosis of allogeneic corneal cells from CD4 KO mice is consistent with previous findings, which noted the presence of apoptotic keratocytes and corneal endothelial cells in rejected corneal allografts in humans and rats respectively (5, 32).

By contrast, 71 % (5/7) of the beige nude mice that received spleen cells from CD4 KO mice rejected their BALB / c corneal allografts.

Spleen cell suspensions were collected 7 — 14 days after CD4 KO mice rejected BALB / c corneal allografts.

The capacity of CD8 − T cells from CD4 KO donors to mediate corneal allograft rejection is puzzling and on the surface, counterintuitive, since these cells are presumably double negative (DN) T cells.

However, closer scrutiny of these studies raises questions about the role of CD4 + T cells as the sole mediators of corneal graft rejection, as corneal allografts undergo immune rejection in 33 % of the mice and 64 % of the rats treated with anti-CD4 monoclonal antibody (12, 13) and in 45 % of the CD4 KO mice (14).

Not exact matches

BALB / c corneal allografts were transplanted to C57BL / 6 beige nude mice that received either CD8 − or CD8 + T cells from C57BL / 6 CD4 knockout (KO) mice that had rejected BALB / c corneal allografts.

We next evaluated T cell numbers in peripheral immune organs and found comparable numbers of CD8 + and CD4 + T cells in spleens of WT mice compared with KO or DKO mice with some modest differences in CD8 + and CD4 + T cell percentages between genotypes (Fig. 2B).