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. 1978 Dec;35(6):1009–1015.

Effects of cyclophosphamide on the in vivo response of outbred athymic (nude) mice to a thymus-independent antigen (DNP-AGG-Ficoll).

H Snippe, B Merchant, L Johannessen, J K Inman
PMCID: PMC1457445  PMID: 367956

Abstract

Both nude mice (nu/nu) and their heterozygous littermates (nu/+) were injected with a single IP dose of 300 mg cyclophosphamide (CY)/kg. CY is a known immunosuppressive agent, which affects primarily B lymphocytes. Immunization with the thymus independent antigen DNP-AGG59-Ficoll after CY treatment disclosed that restoration of the primary direct PFC response occurred more rapidly in nude mice than in nu/+ mice. However in these same experiments, the primary indirect PFC response, recovered earlier in nu/+ mice than in nude mice. After CY treatment, secondary indirect PFC responses were delayed in both nude and nu/+ mice, but the greatest effect was seen in nude mice. The data suggest that the presence of T cells has little if any influence on the recovery capacity of those B cells which are destined to become direct PFC. However the recovery of B cells which are destined to produce indirect PFC responses is facilitated by the presence of T cells.

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