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. 1978 Jun;32(3):545–553.

Effect of corticosteroids on committed lymphocytes.

S J Ramer, D T Yu
PMCID: PMC1541313  PMID: 688698

Abstract

Human peripheral blood lymphocytes were cultured for 48 hr with concanavalin A. The amount of [3H]thymidine incorporated during the last 4 hr of culture, as well as the percentage of rosettes of activated lymphocytes generated, were assayed at the 48th hr. Adding 0.1 M alpha-methyl-D-mannoside (MAM) at progressively later times after the initiation of culture caused progressively less suppression because of the commitment phenomenon. This suppression was not exceeded by the addition of 10(-4) M preparations of corticosteroids and was statistically the same as that induced by a combination of both corticosteroids and MAM. The addition of PGE2 alone and in combination with methylprednisolone also failed to affect [3H]thymidine incorporation by committed lymphocytes.

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