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. 1975 Mar;19(3):459–474.

The different migratory characteristics of lymphocyte populations from a whole spleen transplant.

D M Parrott, N L Tilney, F Sless
PMCID: PMC1538148  PMID: 1204246

Abstract

Spleens from AS x BN donor rats labelled in vivo by multiple doses of [3H]thymidine were transplanted into syngeneic recipients by anastomosis to the abdominal great vessels. The recipients were killed 1-5 days after receiving the whole spleen transplants and the numbers and location of the [3H]thymidine-labelled cells which had migrated from the labelled donor spleen traced by means of autoradiographs of sections, imprints and smears of various recipient lymphoid tissues. These results were compared with the migration pattern of labelled dissociated spleen cell suspensions injected intravenously. The latter consists almost entirely of small lymphocytes which migrate to T or B areas of recipient spleen, lymph nodes and Peyer's patches. The labelled whole spleens also contained cells which migrated to the T and B areas of recipient lymphoid tissues, but in addition contained many lymphoid cells which migrated to the red pulp of the recipient spleen and to the lamina propria of the gut. These experiments showed, therefore, that the spleen contains mobile elements which have not been detected by transfer of spleen cell suspensions.

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