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. 1995 Jun;100(3):536–542. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1995.tb03734.x

Flow cytometric analysis of peripheral blood lymphocyte subset light scatter characteristics as a means of monitoring the development of rat small bowel allograft rejection.

G A Webster 1, M J Bowles 1, M S Karim 1, R F Wood 1, A G Pockley 1
PMCID: PMC1534465  PMID: 7774066

Abstract

This investigation used flow cytometry to monitor peripheral blood lymphocyte morphology after rat small bowel transplantation. Preliminary studies demonstrated that in vitro activated peripheral blood lymphocytes exhibited increased cell size and granularity as measured by flow cytometric analysis of forward (FSc) and side (SSc) light scatter characteristics. The formation of distinct 'activated' light scatter regions by such lymphoblastoid transformation occurred concomitantly with up-regulated p55IL-2R expression. Heterotopic small bowel transplantation was performed between PVG donor and DA recipient rats without immunosuppression. Animals receiving isografts served as controls. Peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets were identified using appropriate MoAbs, and the light scatter characteristics of each cell subset were determined by backgating strategies. Increased proportions of activated alpha/beta T cell receptor (TCR)-positive cells could be detected in allografted animals as early as day 2 post-transplantation. B cells showed peak activation by day 4, at which time the proportion of activated cells was over two-fold greater than that seen in untransplanted animals--few activated B cells were detected in isografted animals. Resting natural killer (NK) cell light scatter regions only partially overlap with those of resting T and B lymphocytes, but in allografted animals almost the entire NK population fell outside the resting lymphocyte gate by day 2 post-transplantation, an activation state which was maintained until day 4. These findings associate peripheral blood cell subset lymphoblastoid transformation with developing small bowel allograft rejection. Importantly, changes were detected early and prior to the onset of overt rejection. These data suggest that analysis of peripheral blood lymphocyte light scatter properties may provide an insight into in vivo immune status after small bowel transplantation.

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