Abstract
Synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP) could stimulate skin fibroblasts of the guinea pig to produce thymocyte-activating factor, which augments the proliferative response of thymocytes to phytohemagglutinin (PHA). Adjuvant-active analogues of MDP also stimulated fibroblasts to produce the factor, whereas adjuvant-inactive analogues failed to do so. Thus a marked parallelism was found between adjuvant activity of these compounds and the stimulating effect on fibroblasts. Thymocyte- activating factor derived from MDP-stimulated fibroblasts was found in the fraction of mol wt 30,000-60,000 by gel filtration on a Sephacryl S- 200 column. Furthermore, this factor did not exhibit T cell growth factor activity.
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