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. 1982 Aug;49(2):331–337.

Genetic factors controlling the intestinal mast cell response in mice infected with Trichinella spiralis.

H Alizadeh, D Wakelin
PMCID: PMC1536488  PMID: 7127907

Abstract

Inbred strains of mice showed marked variation in their mast cell (MC) response to infection with Trichinella spiralis. Variation was under genetic control, the ability to respond to infection being inherited as a dominant trait. MHC-linked genes may influence the absolute level of response, but overall response kinetics appear to be controlled by genes which are not linked to the MHC. An enhanced MC response was transferred adoptively with immune mesenteric lymph node cells (IMLNC), but reciprocal adoptive transfers between H-2 compatible rapid (NIH) and slow (B10.G) responder strains showed that the degree of enhancement was determined by the response phenotype of the recipient, not that of the donor. Similarly, in bone marrow (BM) chimaeras, produced by reconstituting lethally irradiated F1 (B10.G x NIH) mice with parental BM, the MC response to T. spiralis was determined by the response phenotype of the BM donor, whether or not rapid responder IMLNC were transferred. The data are discussed in terms of a T lymphocyte regulated, bone marrow stem cell origin of mucosal MC and interpreted as showing that genetic regulation of the MC response is expressed at the level of stem cell or precursor response to T cell derived mastopoietic factors.

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