T cell-dependent mediator and B-cell clones.
- 1 June 1975
- journal article
- Vol. 28 (6) , 1149-54
Abstract
Supernatants were collected from keyhole limpet haemocyanin (KLH) primed spleen cells which had been incubated in tissue culture medium with their priming antigen KLH. These non-specific factor (NSF) containing supernatants were then tested in a microculture system for their ability to facilitate an anti-SRBC response of nu/nu or AT times BM spleen cells. It was concluded that:(a) NSF was able to engage a large number of the available pool of sheep erythrocyte (SRBC) specific B cells into an antibody response (b) this response was characterized by the development of clones expressing plaque-forming cells (PFC), the number of PFC produced within a clone being dependent upon the amount of NSF available in that culture; (c) NSF probably acted directly on B cells, and not via other accessory cell types.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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