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. 1976 Aug;31(2):159–165.

The effect of cytophilic IgG2 on phagocytosis by ovine polymorphonuclear leucocytes.

D L Watson
PMCID: PMC1445106  PMID: 955674

Abstract

Non-lactating, multiparous ewes were immunized either by subcutaneous infection with live Staphylococcus aureus (seventeen ewes) or by intramuscular injections of a killed S. aureus-oil adjuvant vaccine (seventeen ewes). Polymorphs which were subsequently collected from the mammary glands of the animals were used in in vitro phagocytosis assays against Pseudomonas sp. or S. aureus. There was no difference between polymorphs from the two groups of ewes in their ability to phagocytose Pseudomonas organisms. Polymorphs from the infected ewes showed significant phagocytic superiority over cells from ewes given the killed vaccine when S. aureus was the target organism. This phagocytic superiority could be abrogated by removal of cytophilic immunoglobulin from polymorphs and restored by replacement of cytophilic immunoglobulin. It was shown by staining polymorphs with FITC-conjugated anti-immunoglobulin sera that cytophilic immunoglobulin on the surface of polymorphs belonged to the IgG2 class of immunoglobulins. When 'neutral' polymorphs (from non-immunized ewes) were coated with IgG2 purified from the sera of infected ewes, they exhibited enhanced phagocytosis of staphylococci compared with 'neutral' polymorphs carying IgG2 from the sera of ewes given the killed vaccine.

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