• 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 36  (3) , 375-380
Abstract
Rabbit WBC [white blood cells] and spleen cells responded with marked blastogenesis and mitosis when cultured with mitomycin-C treated autologous sacculus rotundus, appendix and Peyer''s patches cells in the 1-way rabbit mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR). A lesser response was observed using stimulating cells of the other lymphoid organs. The blastogenic response in the 1 way autologous MLR cannot be attributed to mitogenic factors released from the mitomycin-C treated stimulator cells since it is also observed in the 2-way autologous MLR, using untreated stimulator cells. Several explanations were proposed to account for the autologous MLR.