Abstract
The August and Hooded rat strains are compatible at the major histocompatibility locus (both are AgB5 or Rtlc). Antisera against the minor histocompatibility antigens of Hooded rats were raised by immunizing August rats with grafts of tumours or normal tissue. Such antisera, if transferred to normal unimmunized August rats, cause them to reject i.v. administered Hooded rat leukemia (HRL) cells within a few hours, and X-irradiated August rats, for whom a graft of HRL is lethal, can survive indefinitely if pretreated with the antiserum. The distribution of 125I-labelled HRL cells in the tissues of August rats was followed at times after their injection, and it was found that, in the presence of antiserum, i.v. administered leukaemic cells are rapidly destroyed in the liver and spleen. The active component of the antiserum is IgG antibody, and its action is independent of the lytic elements of complement. Antibody-mediated splenic and hepatic clearance of the leukaemia cells is unaffected by total-body X-irradiation but reduced by treating the rats with colloidal carbon. The data are consistent with the hypothesis that the rejection of HRL across the histocompatibility barrier studied is, in the presence of antibody, effected by immunophagocytosis.
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