标题:Allograft Tolerance: Presumptive Evidence That Serum Factors from Tolerant Animals That Block Lymphocyte-Mediated Immunity In Vitro Are Soluble Antigen-Antibody Complexes
期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1973
卷号:70
期号:9
页码:2539-2543
DOI:10.1073/pnas.70.9.2539
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Serum factors present in rats rendered operationally tolerant to skin allografts by inoculation of allogeneic bone-marrow cells as newborns inhibit or "block" the cytotoxic effect of immune lymphocytes in vitro. These blocking factors were specifically removed from tolerant serum by absorption with allogeneic cells and later eluted from the absorbing cells in glycine buffer (pH 3.1). Blocking activity of the eluted material was resolved into fractions of low and higher molecular weight, which may be soluble histocompatibility antigen and specific alloantibody, respectively. Both antigen and antigen-antibody complexes may block in vitro, depending upon the assay used.