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. 1970 Jul 1;132(1):31–43. doi: 10.1084/jem.132.1.31

ANTIBODY-MEDIATED SUPPRESSION OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE IN VITRO

II. A NEW APPROACH TO THE PHENOMENON OF IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE

Erwin Diener 1, Marc Feldmann 1
PMCID: PMC2138743  PMID: 4927595

Abstract

Immunological tolerance to H antigens of Salmonella adelaide may be induced in vitro by the exposure of mouse spleen cells for 6 hr to an immunogenic dose of polymerized flagellin in the presence of low concentrations of specific antibody. Such antibody-mediated tolerance requires an optimal antigen: antibody ratio for its induction. A shift in this ratio in favor of the antibody concentration results in failure of tolerance induction and leads to immune suppression commonly known as antibody-mediated feedback inhibition which is not analogous to immunological tolerance. Fragment A of flagellin fails to induce immunological tolerance in vitro. Tolerance to polymerized flagellin may however be induced in vitro, provided the spleen cells are exposed to fragment A in the presence of specific antibody for 6 hr. The results are discussed in the light of current theories of the mechanism of tolerance induction.

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