Abstract
Lymphocyte-induced angiogenesis factor (LIA) is a product of T lymphocytes which has been shown to stimulate new vessel formation. Because immune senescence most profoundly affects T lymphocyte functions, we suspected that LIA production would decline with age. An assay for angiogenesis stimulated by allogeneic reaction was performed by injecting spleen cells from young or old donor mice into the skin of irradiated allogeneic recipient mice. The spleen cells from young mice induced a significantly greater number of vessels than did cells from older mice. In additional experiments, spleen cells from young and old animals were treated with a monoclonal antibody GK1.5) directed at the L3T4 antigen on murine T helper lymphocytes. Such treatment significantly reduced the new vessel formation induced by young lymphocytes but had no effect on that induced by lymphocytes from old animals. Studies employing indirect immunofluorescence demonstrated that the proportion of L3T4+ cells in the mononuclear fraction of splenocytes was nearly identical in both young and old mice. From these investigations we can conclude that (1) L3T4+ lymphocytes are responsible for LIA production, and (2) production, like that of other T lymphokines, declines with age.
Keywords: Monoclonal Antibody, Cancer Research, Additional Experiment, Spleen Cell, Indirect Immunofluorescence
Footnotes
Supported by NIH grant AG 00332 and VA Merit Award (WBE)
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