Inflammatory cerebrospinal fluid T cells have activation requirements characteristic of CD4+CD45RA- T cells.

European Journal of Immunology
M ChofflonD A Hafler

Abstract

It has long been recognized that T cells in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and other inflammatory compartments cannot be stimulated by mitogen and the reason for this has remained unknown. This question was investigated using mononuclear cells (MNC) isolated from the CSF of subjects with multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory brain diseases which predominantly express the CD4 and CDw29 but not CD45RA determinants. CSF and blood cells were stimulated by either the CD3/T cell receptor complex, the CD2 activation pathway, calcium ionophore, or an activator of protein kinase C, phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). CSF MNC proliferated less than blood MNC following stimulation by phytohemagglutinin in subjects with inflammation in the CSF, but not in subjects with non-inflammatory CNS diseases. Moreover, CSF MNC were not induced to proliferate through stimulation of the CD2 pathway by anti-T11(2) + anti-T11(3) monoclonal antibodies (mAb). This was not due to defects in either interleukin 2 receptors, interleukin 2 secretion, or to T cell pre-activation in vivo. Instead, the refractory activation state of inflammatory CSF T cells was corrected by PMA. That CSF contains predominantly CD4+CDw29+CD45RA- cells suggests that PMA may be co-s...Continue Reading

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