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N R Rose

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PubMed1976

Abnormal response to minor histocompatibility antigens in Obese strain chickens.

Obese strain chickens, which spontaneously develop autoimmune thyroiditis, were tested for their ability to tolerate skin allografts. Several procedures known to prolong graft survival in normal strains were employed. These included the use of skin matched at the major histocompatibility locus, grafting on the day of hatching, thymectomy, and x-irradiation. A dramatic difference between the Obese and the normal Cornell strain (the strain from which Obese was derived) was detected when both were thymectomized and grafted at hatching. Under these conditions eight of 13 normal but only one of 16 Obese strain birds retained their grafts for 50 days. This suggests the presence of an abnormal thymus or thymus-derived suppressor T cells in Obese strain chickens.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1976

Discussion paper: loss of cellular antigens during malignant transformation.

Normal human diploid cells, such as WE-38, transformed by an oncogenic virus, SV40, are greatly depleted of a cathodal esterase isozyme using both immunological and enzymatic criteria. This cathodal esterase is primate-specific and associated with lysosomes of many different tissue cells. It provides a clear example of antigenic loss associated with malignant change.

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PubMed1976

In vitro senescence of mammalian cells.

This review discusses the molecular and cytokinetic aspects of cellular aging of human diploid fibroblasts. Despite a large amount of data, the basis of their limited life span has not been defined. A replicative defect in aging cells lies in the mechanism(s) that initiates DNA synthesis, and the control of this mechanism(s) is mediated through an alteration in the sythesis of specific RNA and protein molecules. Two major groups of hypotheses have been offered to explain these findings. The differentiation hypotheses are based on the concept of a 'biological clock', while error hypotheses presuppose defects in genetic transcription or translation.

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PubMed1976

Autoimmune murine thyroiditis. VIII. Role of different thyroid antigens in the induction of experimental autoimmune thyroiditis.

Mice of the C57Br strain, which are susceptible to the induction of autoimmune thyroiditis with mouse thyroglobulin, and C57Bl mice, which are resistant, were immunized with human and rabbit thyroglobulins in Freund's complete adjuvant. Susceptible strain C57Br developed higher degrees of thyroid infiltration than the resistant strain. The results indicate that the responses to xenogeneic (foreign) thyroglobulins parallel allogeneic and syngeneic (mouse) thyroglobulin. BSVS mice, which are highly susceptible to thyroiditis, were immunized with mouse thyroid extract from five different mouse strains including syngeneic antigen. Recipients of C57Bl and DBA thyroid extracts showed lower indices of pathology than recipients of similar extracts from C3H, BSVS and non-inbred CF-1 mice. The results suggest that there is a difference in the immunogenicity of mouse thyroid extracts from different strains. Purified thyroglobulin was prepared from congenic strains B10.D2 (H-2d, resistant) and B10Br (H-2k, susceptible). H-2k thyroglobulin gave a greater response in both H-2k and H-2d mice than H-2d thyroglobulin.

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PubMed1976

Thyroid antibodies in spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis in the Buffalo rat.

Thyroid antibodies in the sera of BUF rats are closely correlated with spontaneous thyroiditis; their detection may facilitate the study of this animal model of organ-specific autoimmunity. In a group of 115 retired BUF breeders (females older than 1 year), 26% had mononuclear cell infiltration of the thyroid and high titers of thyroid antibodies detectable by indirect immunofluorescence (IF) and chromic chloride passive hemagglutination (CCH). In contrast, low-titered thyroid antibodies were present in 9% of the rats that had normal thyroids. Sequential studies performed on a group of 76 neonatally thymectomized BUF rats showed that at 2 months 24% had high titers of thyroid antibodies detectable by IF and 8% by CCH and at 3 months these percentages increased to 27% by IF and 25% by CCH. When the rats were sacrificed at 4 months, at a time when spontaneous disease is not seen in untreated animals, 26% were found to have mononuclear cell infiltration of their thyroids. Approximately 75% of these rats with thyroiditis had been positive for thyroid antibodies at 2 months and 90% at 3 months. At sacrifice all of these animals had high-titered antibodies to thyroid antigens. In contrast, low-titered thyroid antibodies were present in 36% of the animals without thyroiditis. Intravenous injection of BUF thymus cells into neonatally thymectomized rats failed to reduce the incidence of thyroiditis and thyroid antibodies. Approximately 33% of these animals had both thyroid infiltration and serum antibodies, whereas 19% of those with normal thyroids had low-titered thyroid antibodies. Titers of circulating thyroid antibodies were closely correlated with the initial and intermediate stages of thyroiditis, i.e., animals with less infiltration had the lowest titers, whereas animals with intermediate levels of infiltration had high antibody titers. On the other hand, rats with a high degree of thyroid infiltration had relatively lower titers of thyroid antibodies. Direct IF of infiltrated thyroids revealed the presence of rat immunoglobulins in these organs, suggesting a possible direct or indirect role of autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of the disease. We attempted to detect delayed hypersensitivity by skin testing with thyroid antigens and observing reactions at 4, 24, and 48 hr. All of 123 rats were negative, 20% of which had thyroiditis and thyroid antibodies. No serum MIF activity was detected in rats with thyroiditis and those with normal thyroids. The absence of delayed hypersensitivity reactions in these experiments provides further support for the contention that spontaneous thyroiditis in the BUF rat may be antibody mediated.

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PubMed1976

Immunology of prostatic carcinoma-an overview.

The possibility of altering the course of prostatic cancer by immunologic means requires a clear understanding of the host-tumor relationship in this disease. Available data suggest that prostatic tumors contain both prostate-specific and tumor-specific antigens, although evidence on the latter is still debatable. Patients with prostatic cancer often show nonspecific depression of their cell-mediated immunocompetence, as do patients with many other forms of cancer. The question of whether prostatic cancers are immunogenic; that is, whether they elicit a specific immunologic response, remains unanswered.

Acid Phosphatase↗
PubMed1975

Modification of hybrid responsiveness in the local graft-versus-host reaction by injection of parental lymphocytes.

The local graft-versus-host reaction in F1 hybrid rats, assayed by popliteal lymph node enlargement, is specifically depressed by pretreating the host with parental lymphocytes. The conditions for demonstrating specific depression are injection of a small dose of parental lymphocytes and assay 7 days later. Pretreatment with cells from thymus and bone marrow is ineffective, as is pretreatment with purified B lymphocytes. The structures which stimulate the suppressed response of F1 hybrids are not present on parental B lymphocytes.

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PubMed1975

Antigenic and enzymatic changes in infected and transformed human diploid cells.

Human diploid fibroblasts, WI-38, were infected with various agents and the levels of lysosomal enzymes determined by immunochemical quantitation. Esterase levels were raised by mumps virus and Toxoplasma gondii infection. The concentration of beta-D-glucuronidase was reduced by these same agents. Beta-D-N-acetyl glucosaminidase was greatly increased in cultures infected with T. gondii and decreased by mycoplasma infection. Two cultures transformed by SV40 showed reduced levels of esterase compared with WI-38, as did one of two transformed amnion cultures. A second amnion culture and a culture of transformed Detroit 551 fibroblasts were unchanged. The levels of acid phosphatase were sharply reduced in three of the four SV40 transformed cultures tested.

Acid Phosphatase↗
PubMed1975

Spontaneous and methylcholanthrene-enhanced thyroiditis in BUF rats. I. The incidence and severity of the disease, and the genetics of susceptibility.

Virgin female Buffalo strain (BUF) rats that were treated with methylcholanthrene (MC) had a higher incidence of lymphocytic thyroiditis than untreated BUF rats. The degree of infiltration was also greater in MC-treated rats. The incidence of thyroiditis in retired breeder female BUF rats approached that found in MC-treated rats. The susceptibility to the effect of MC was not expressed in most F-1 hybrids of BUF and Lewis (LEW), a strain of rat that does not develop thyroiditis after treatment with MC.

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PubMed1975

Spontaneous and methylcholanthrene-enhanced thyroiditis in BUF rats. II. Induction of experimental autoimmune thyroiditis without completed Freund's adjuvant.

The immunization of Buffalo strain (BUF) rats with rat thyroid extract and Bordetella pertussis vaccine without complete Freund's adjuvant resulted in experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (EAT) in 90% of the rats by the 10th day after immunization. The treatment did not elicit thyroiditis in Lewis strain (LEW) rats. This susceptibility to the induction of EAT without the use of complete Freund's adjuvant was inherited by F1 hybrids of BUF and LEW. Neither histamine sensitizing factor from B. pertussus nor Escherichia coli vaccine substitute for whole pertussis vaccine.

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PubMed1975

Species-specific tissue antigens. III. Immunological relationships of enzymic antigens in various species.

Immunological relationships have been investigated with acid and alkaline phosphatases, cystine aminopeptidase, beta-acetylglucosaminidase, beta-glucuronidase, catalase and L-glutamate dehydrogenase of human, monkey, mouse, rat, rabbit, dog, cattle, sheep, cat, pig, guinea-pig and chicken organ extracts by means of immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis. Extensive cross-reactions among the antigens of most of the enzymes were observed. However, enzymic proteins of acid and alkaline phosphatases, cystine aminopeptidase, beta-acetylglucosaminidase and beta-glucuronidase were found to possess primate and/or human-specific antigenic determinants.

Acetylglucosaminidase↗