SOME REQUIREMENTS FOR THE RESPONSE OF SEPARATED T‐CELL SUB‐POPULATIONS TO THE MITOGENS PHYTOHAEMAGGLUTININ AND CONCANAVALIN A

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The proliferative response of various separated populations of mouse spleen and thymus lymphocytes to the mitogen phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) was not a direct function of the level of responsive T cells, but was governed by other regulatory effects. These included a stimulation by adherent macrophages, an inhibition by a separate population of adherent cells and an adherent cell independent restriction of proliferation at high cell concentration. In contrast, the proliferate response Concanavalin A (Con A) was more closely related to the level of responsive T cells. All density and electrophoretically isolated sub-sets of splenic T cells appeared capable of a proliferative response to PHA and Con A, although under some conditions the PHA responsiveness of certain fractions was suppressed. In the thymus, the minor low sub-population appeared capable of response to both mitogens, and accounted for all the activity of the unfractioned thymus cells. No response to either mitogen could be obtained from the major, high thymocyte population.

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