Mowat A M, Felstein M V
Immunology. 1987 Jun;61(2):179-83.
This study has investigated whether natural killer (NK) cells play a protective or an effector role in unirradiated mice with graft-versus-host reaction (GvHR). Treatment of (CBA X BALB/c)F1 mice with anti-asialo GM1 (ASGM1) antibody produced a profound depletion of resting NK-cell activity and also inhibited the normal enhancement of NK activity found after induction of a GvHR with CBA spleen cells. Compared with normal hosts, mice treated with anti-AsGM1 developed less splenomegaly in GvHR and did not show the crypt hyperplasia normally found in this model of GvHR. Anti-AsGM1 also produced a small but significant reduction of intraepithelial lymphocyte (IEL) numbers in the jejunum of control mice. We conclude that intestinal NK cells are an essential component of the local delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction which is responsible for the intestinal phase of GvHR in unirradiated mice.
本研究调查了自然杀伤(NK)细胞在未受照射的移植物抗宿主反应(GvHR)小鼠中是发挥保护作用还是效应作用。用抗去唾液酸GM1(ASGM1)抗体处理(CBA×BALB/c)F1小鼠,可使静息NK细胞活性显著降低,并且抑制在用CBA脾细胞诱导GvHR后发现的NK活性正常增强。与正常宿主相比,用抗AsGM1处理的小鼠在GvHR中脾脏肿大较轻,且未表现出该GvHR模型中通常出现的隐窝增生。抗AsGM1还使对照小鼠空肠中的上皮内淋巴细胞(IEL)数量出现小幅但显著的减少。我们得出结论,肠道NK细胞是局部迟发型超敏反应(DTH)的重要组成部分,该反应介导未受照射小鼠GvHR的肠道阶段。