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. 1990 Feb;79(2):285–290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1990.tb05192.x

Role of antigen-presenting cells in variation in immunogenicity of mycobacteria.

K E Shroff 1, K B Sainis 1, S R Sengupta 1, R S Kamat 1
PMCID: PMC1534757  PMID: 2311305

Abstract

The route of immunization was observed to play a significant role in deciding the outcome of immunization with killed mycobacterial vaccines. Whereas the slow growers were immunogenic by both intraperitoneal and intradermal routes, the rapid growers were immunogenic only by intradermal route. The non-responder state of mice to Mycobacterium vaccae by i.p. route of immunization could be corrected by prior treatment with poly I:poly C, an interferon inducer, or indomethacin, a prostaglandin inhibitor. Antigen-presenting efficiency of peritoneal and spleen cells were compared employing M. vaccae and M. tuberculosis H37Rv primed T cells and corresponding sonicates as antigens in an in vitro lymphocyte transformation test. Irradiated spleen cells presented both the antigens efficiently. However, with peritoneal cells as antigen-presenting cells, proliferative response against only M. tuberculosis was observed; proliferation of M. vaccae primed T cells was very poor. Peritoneal cells of poly I:poly C treated mice showed distinct improvement in their efficiency of presentation; even paraformaldehyde-fixed peritoneal cells gave an efficient stimulation with M. vaccae. The percentage of Ia-positive fraction in peritoneal cells was very low (5.95%) in comparison with spleen cells (38.37%). Poly I:poly C treatment resulted in increase in the Ia-positive cell fraction of the peritoneal cells to 24.5%.

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