FIGURE 1.
DT-induced depletion of DC in DTR chimeric mice. DTR→NT and NT→NT chimeras were treated with DT (4 ng/g body weight) or PBS on days −4 and −1, and on day 0 spleens were harvested. One half of each spleen was processed by mechanical disruption followed by digestion with collagenase D (1 mg/ml) for 1 h, whereas the other half was processed by mechanical disruption only. FACS plots show GFP vs CD11c expression on MHC class II+ gated cells, with the percentage of CD11c+GFP+ (DTR/GFP transgenic) and CD11c+GFP− (nontransgenic host-derived) DC indicated.