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. 1988 Apr;57(4):378–384. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1988.86

Induced type-B reticulum cell neoplasia in mice III. The importance of T-cell proliferation and cellular relocation in accessory cell transformation.

M P Brittle 1, V J Wallis 1, M Chaudhuri 1, R A Goucher 1, K J Gomer 1
PMCID: PMC2246560  PMID: 3291923

Abstract

After the transfer of spleen cells from old CBA/T6T6 mice (greater than 75 weeks) into young syngeneic CBA/Ca recipients there usually follows a selective expansion of the donor T-cell population and the emergence of type B reticulum cell neoplasms (RCN-B), also of donor origin though probably derived not from the T-cells but from lymphoid dendritic accessory cells. As few as one million injected cells led to significant donor T-cell hyperplasia and tumour induction. Injection of cells from young donors did not have such consequences. Similar tumours were induced by transferring syngeneic cells in both C57BL and DBA/2 mice, although in the latter strain there was no requirement for the injected cells to derive from old donors. It appeared that T-cell proliferation was independent of donor accessory cells or RCN-B induction, since injection of enriched T-cells led to few tumours, although the T-cell chimaerism was indistinguishable from that in recipients of unseparated spleen cells. Development of tumours, however, seemed to be dependent upon stimulated T-cells. Recipients of spleen cells from old T-cell-deprived mice did not develop tumours; conversely, tumours, mostly of donor origin, were induced in recipients of young syngeneic cells when an extrinsic stimulus to T-cell proliferation was provided by continued allostimulation. The apparent selectivity of tumorigenesis for donor cells has led to the proposal that cellular relocation, as a result of transfer, may be an important predisposing factor in malignant transformation in circumstances of T-cell stimulation provided by antigenic challenge or by transfer of T-cells from old donors.

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