Inhibition of antigen-stimulated effector T cells by human cerebrospinal fluid

Neuroimmunomodulation
Andrew W Taylor, J W Streilein

Abstract

The brain is an immune-privilege site. To understand the mechanism of immune privilege in the brain, human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was examined for characteristics associated with fluids derived from other immune-privileged tissues. We first assayed for CSF suppression of effector T cell inflammatory activities. Primed T cells were activated with antigen and antigen-presenting cells in the presence of normal human or rabbit CSF, and T cell proliferation and interferon-gamma production were assayed. Human and rabbit CSF enhanced antigen-stimulated lymph node T cell proliferation and human CSF suppressed IFN-gamma production. T cell proliferation was suppressed by a low molecular weight (< 5 kDA) fraction of CSF and by transiently acidified unfractionated CSF. Normal CSF, similar to fluids from other immune-privileged sites, has the capacity to suppress production of proinflammatory lymphokines by antigen-stimulated effector T cells. Normal CSF also contains factors that have the potential to suppress effector T cell proliferation. Human CSF was assayed for factors known to mediate immunosuppression in other immune-privileged sites. Human CSF contained the immunosuppressive cytokine-transforming growth factor-beta (1.7 +/- 0.6 ...Continue Reading

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