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. 1978 Nov;35(5):721–731.

Distinction between suppressors of the delayed-type hypersensitivity and the humoral response to sheep erythrocytes.

K Yamaguchi, S Kishimoto
PMCID: PMC1457542  PMID: 309853

Abstract

Suppressors for both delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) and the humoral immune response could be simultaneously induced in the spleens of mice by immunization with a high dose of SRBC. Normal recipient mice of the spleen cells from donors immunized 5 days previously elicited depressed DTH or humoral response when immunized with SRBC. The suppressive activity was found to reside in T not B enriched fraction. Four hundred rad irradiation of the primed spleen cells resulted in complete loss of DTH suppressor activity, but only in some reduction of the suppressor activity for the humoral response. In contrast, hydrocortisone treatment of the donor mice caused no loss of DTH suppressor activity while approximately half of the suppressive activity for anti-SRBC PFC response was lost. Adult thymectomy prevented completely the induction of the DTH suppressor in contrast to little loss of the suppressor activity for the humoral response. DTH suppression was antigen-specific for the induction, but nonspecific for the expression. However the suppression of the humoral response was antigen-specific not only for the induction but also for the expression. In addition, DTH suppressor was capable of suppressing both the induction and expression of DTH while the humoral response was suppressed only in the induction stage by the suppressor.

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