Skinner M, Le Gros G, Marbrook J, Watson J D
J Exp Med. 1987 Jun 1;165(6):1481-93. doi: 10.1084/jem.165.6.1481.
Most fetal thymocytes from 14-d mouse embryos are Thy-1+, L3T4-, Ly-2-, and express the receptor for interleukin 2 (IL-2). The development of thymocytes has been followed in fetal thymus organ cultures. When fetal thymus from 14-d embryos were cultured for a 6-d period, thymocytes increased in number 20-40-fold, and 95% became Thy-1+, L3T4+, Ly-2+. The addition of IL-2 to organ cultures of 14-d fetal thymus inhibited, in a dose-dependent manner, cell proliferation and the appearance of Thy-1+, L3T4+, Ly-2+ thymocytes. The addition of IL-2 also resulted in the appearance of a population of cells that were cytotoxic for syngeneic and allogeneic fetal thymocytes and syngeneic tumour targets. While the events that lead to the expression of the IL-2 receptor on 14-d fetal thymocytes are unknown, IL-2 in fetal thymus organ cultures inhibits the normal maturation of fetal thymocytes and raises the question of whether the cytotoxic cells that appear reflect selection through an alternative pathway of development.
来自14天龄小鼠胚胎的大多数胎儿胸腺细胞为Thy-1阳性、L3T4阴性、Ly-2阴性,并表达白细胞介素2(IL-2)受体。胸腺细胞的发育过程已在胎儿胸腺器官培养物中进行了跟踪研究。当将14天龄胚胎的胎儿胸腺培养6天时,胸腺细胞数量增加了20至40倍,且95%变为Thy-1阳性、L3T4阳性、Ly-2阳性。向14天龄胎儿胸腺的器官培养物中添加IL-2,以剂量依赖的方式抑制细胞增殖以及Thy-1阳性、L3T4阳性、Ly-2阳性胸腺细胞的出现。添加IL-2还导致出现了一群对同基因和异基因胎儿胸腺细胞以及同基因肿瘤靶标具有细胞毒性的细胞。虽然导致14天龄胎儿胸腺细胞表达IL-2受体的事件尚不清楚,但胎儿胸腺器官培养物中的IL-2会抑制胎儿胸腺细胞的正常成熟,并引发这样一个问题,即出现的细胞毒性细胞是否反映了通过另一种发育途径进行的选择。