In vitro antiphagocytic effect of Melia azedarach leaf extracts on mouse peritoneal exudate cells

1994 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Courrèges ◽  
F. Benencia ◽  
C.E. Coto ◽  
E.J. Massouh ◽  
F.C. Coulombié
Phytomedicine ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Courrèges ◽  
F. Benencia ◽  
F.C. Coulombié ◽  
C.E. Coto

1980 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 1184-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Boon ◽  
J Van Snick ◽  
A Van Pel ◽  
C Uyttenhove ◽  
M Marchand

Tumor cell variants that were rejected by syngeneic mice (tum-) were obtained from mastocytoma P815 by mutagenesis (as described in the accompanying report (13). A considerable T lymphocyte-mediated lysis was observed upon incubation of these tum- variants with peritoneal exudate cells collected a few days after an intraperitoneal challenge of immune animals. Spleen cells from these animals were cytolytic after stimulation in vitro with the immunizing variant. New antigens, absent from the original P815 tum+ cells, were detected on 15 of the 21 tum- variants that were tested. All these antigens appeared to be different. No new antigen was detected on any of 10 mutagenized P815 clones that had retained their ability to form tumors. We compared the evidence obtained in vivo and in vitro for the presence of specific antigens on five tum- variants. Three variants were shown both in vivo and in vitro to carry an individual antigen. One showed no specificity either in vivo or in vitro. However, for one variant, no specificity was observed in vivo, although cytolysis tests demonstrated the existence of a singular antigenic specificity.


1977 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 618-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
W E Paul ◽  
E M Shevach ◽  
S Pickeral ◽  
D W Thomas ◽  
A S Rosenthal

Thymus-dependent (T) lymphocytes from (2 x 13)F1 hybrid guinea pigs immunized to ovalbumin (OVA) in complete Freund's adjuvant can be stimulated to proliferate in vitro by antigen-pulsed peritoneal exudate cells (PECs) derived from either strain 2 or strain 13 donors. In this communication, we show that the population of primed F1 T lymphocytes which can be activated by antigen-pulsed strain 2 PECs is largely independent of the population of cells that can be activated by antigen-pulsed strain 13 PECs. This was demonstrated by both positive and negative selection procedures. In the former, T lymphocytes from OVA-primed (2 x 13)F1 donors were enriched by initial culture with OVA-pulsed strain 2 or strain 13 PECs for 1 wk. Cells selected by culture with OVA-pulsed strain 2 PECs responded well to OVA-pulsed strain 2 PECs and poorly to OVA-pulsed strain 13 PECs. If positive selection had been carried out with OVA-pulsed strain 13 PECs, the selected F1 T cells responded well to OVA-pulsed 13 PECs and poorly to OVA-pulsed 2 PECs. Negative selection was achieved by short term culture with antigen-pulsed PECs and by eliminating proliferating cells by treatment with bromodeoxyuridine and light. This procedure demonstrated that the population of primed F1 T lymphocytes which are responsive to OVA or to purified protein derivative of tuberculin can be divided into subpopulations uniquely responsive to antigen on either strain 2 or strain 13 PECs. Evidence was presented to indicate that this selective responsiveness was not the result of the action of alloantigen-specific suppressor cells. The results are considered in terms of current concepts of the genetic and molecular regulation of the interaction of PECs and T lymphocytes.


1964 ◽  
Vol 120 (6) ◽  
pp. 1189-1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. David ◽  
H. S. Lawrence ◽  
L. Thomas

Peritoneal exudate cells from animals exhibiting delayed hypersensitivity are inhibited from migrating in vitro by specific antigen. This inhibition is completely abolished by pretreatment of the sensitive cells with trypsin. The action of trypsin is prevented by soybean trypsin inhibitor. The results of experiments with mixtures of normal and sensitive cells suggest that trypsin alters an immunologic capacity of the sensitive cells. Trypsinized sensitive cells are capable of passively transferring delayed hypersensitivity and peritoneal cells taken from recipient animals are inhibited from migrating in vitro by specific antigen. These results suggest that the cells rapidly resynthesize the material removed by trypsin. The possible nature of the material removed by trypsin is discussed.


1960 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. McKenna ◽  
Kingsley M. Stevens

Cells from peritoneal exudates of rabbits sacrificed 3 days after an intraperitoneal injection of sterile mineral oil were grown in tissue cultures in medium 199 (75 per cent); normal rabbit serum (25 per cent). Antibody produced by the cells was assayed by an hemagglutination technique in which the antigens used were adsorbed to formalinized tanned sheep erythrocytes. These sensitized cells agglutinate in the presence of antibody specific to the adsorbed antigen. It has been demonstrated that: Peritoneal exudate cells produced hemagglutinating antibody to bovine gamma globulin (BGG) in a replicating tissue culture system for approximately 3 weeks when taken from animals given either primary or secondary injections of BGG. The mean hemagglutinating titer was 30 for the primary and 32 for the secondary systems. Since the other cell types did not persist, it is felt that monocytes were responsible for these results. Monocytes taken from normal rabbits and exposed to either BGG or egg albumen (EA) in vitro produced titers of 28 for about 2 weeks. Monocytes taken from rabbits given hyperimmunizing injections of BGG produced titers of 147 for about 1 week. Endotoxin from Salmonella typhosa caused the monocytes to form antibody as if they had been taken from hyperimmunized rabbits. This was true both when the antigen was given in vivo together with the endotoxin as well as when the cells were exposed to antigen in vitro. The titers were 223 and 97, respectively. Neither freshly harvested nor cultured monocytes were phagocytic for carbon particles or bacteria in vitro. Monocytes in tissue culture appeared to assume the morphology of fibroblasts, but did not stain with the characteristics of fibroblasts. The morphologic changes and staining characteristics of monocytes in tissue culture have been described. The implications of these findings have been discussed and an attempt made to integrate them into general biological theory.


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