T cells from newborn humans are fully capable of developing into cytotoxic T lymphocyte effector cells in adoptive hosts

Transplantation
H MarcusYair Reisner

Abstract

The finding of reduced incidence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) associated with cord blood transplantation, compared to unrelated allogeneic bone marrow, could be related to the lower number of T cells infused in the cord blood (CB) inoculum or it might represent an intrinsic property of CB T cells. We investigated the in vivo function of human cord blood mononuclear cells (CBMC) after their adoptive transfer into lethally irradiated BALB/c radioprotected with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mouse bone marrow. The ability of human CBMC to engraft and produce antigen-specific alloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and antibodies was determined by FACS, 51Chromium-release assay, and ELISA. Recipients of human CBMC showed engraftment of high levels of both CD14+ and CD3+ cells. Human cells recovered from the peritoneal cavity of chimeric mice, 1 week after immunization with irradiated allogeneic cells, showed adult-level human CTL response against the immunizing cells, without further stimulation in vitro. In contrast, immunization with the tetanus (TT) antigen did not lead to the generation of anti-TT immunoglobulins (Ig) in the cord blood chimera. Furthermore, whereas the addition of purified adult T cells to t...Continue Reading

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Jul 2, 2004·Nature Reviews. Immunology·Becky AdkinsStuart Marshall-Clarke

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