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. 1997 May;91(1):65–72. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00233.x

Reconstitution of SCID mice with haemopoietic precursors: a detailed analysis of gamma delta T-cell reconstitution.

K A Kelly 1, R O'Brien 1, W Born 1
PMCID: PMC1364036  PMID: 9203967

Abstract

A well-known characteristic of gamma delta T cells is that they are produced in waves during ontogeny, with cells expressing T-cell receptor V gamma 5 appearing early in fetal thymic ontogeny, followed by V gamma 6, then by other gamma delta T-cell types. In addition, evidence exists to suggest that the potential of haemopoietic precursors to generate different types of gamma delta T cells changes in ontogeny. We have used these observations as the basis for an extensive study of the potential for haemopoietic precursors isolated from fetal liver, neonatal spleen and adult bone marrow to reconstitute severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice. Mice that were reconstituted as newborns with fetal liver cells most closely resembled normal C.B-17 mice with respect to both lymphocyte numbers and subsets, while mice reconstituted with adult bone marrow had fewer cells than normal mice. This deficit spanned both T and B cells in all organs examined. Among the gamma delta T-cell subsets examined, the ability to reconstitute V gamma 4+ cells was particularly dependent on the ontogenic age of the reconstituting presursors, with fetal liver cells having the greatest capacity to generate V gamma 4+ cells, and adult bone marrow cells the least. The vast majority of the T cells produced in the reconstituted mice were of donor origin, and the level of reconstitution was found to be dependent upon some factor other than the presursor frequency.

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