Lin28b reprograms adult bone marrow hematopoietic progenitors to mediate fetal-like lymphopoiesis

The immune system develops in waves during ontogeny; it is initially populated by cells generated from fetal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and later by cells derived from adult HSCs. Remarkably, the genetic programs that control these two distinct stem cell fates remain poorly understood. We report that Lin28b is specifically expressed in mouse and human fetal liver and thymus, but not in adult bone marrow or thymus. We demonstrate that ectopic expression of Lin28 reprograms hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) from adult bone marrow, which endows them with the ability to mediate multilineage reconstitution that resembles fetal lymphopoiesis, including increased development of B-1a, marginal zone B, gamma/delta (γδ) T cells, and natural killer T (NKT) cells.     

L-asparaginase induced immunosuppression: inhibition of bone marrow derived antibody precursor cells

The cooperation between bone marrow and thymus cells in restoring the hemolytic antibody response to sheep erythrocytes in immunosuppressed recipients was markedly inhibited when donor mice were treated with L-asparaginase, a known inhibitor of lymphocyte function. The marrow cell population was shown to be a major target for the immunosuppressive activity of asparaginase, since thymus cells from enzyme-treated animals interacted with marrow cells from normal animals to generate immunocompetent cells.     

Radioresistance of cooperative function of carrier-specific lymphocytes in antihapten antibody responses

Transfer of lymphoid cells from strain-2 guinea pigs immunized to bovine gamma globulin into syngeneic recipients immunized with dinitrophenyl ovalbumin markedly enhances the secondary antidinitrophenyl response of the recipient to challenge with dinitrophenyl-bovine gamma globulin. This function of the carrier bovine gamma globulin-specific cells is resistant to irradiation with up to 5000 rads, although the capacity of the irradiated cell population to transfer immunologic memory for bovine gamma globulins or to be stimulated by antigen to synthesize DNA in vitro is abolished by this treatment.     

Induction of donor-specific unresponsiveness by intrathymic islet transplantation

The application of isolated pancreatic islet transplantation for treatment of diabetes mellitus has been hampered by the vulnerability of islet allografts to immunologic rejection. Rat islet allografts that were transplanted into the thymus of recipients treated with a single injection of anti-lymphocyte serum survived indefinitely. A state of donor-specific unresponsiveness was achieved that permitted survival of a second donor strain islet allograft transplanted to an extrathymic site. Maturation of T cell precursors in a thymic microenvironment that is harboring foreign alloantigen may induce the selective unresponsiveness. This model provides an approach for pancreatic islet transplantation and a potential strategy for specific modification of the peripheral immune repertoire.     

鸡传染性贫血病病理形态学变化

对一日龄雏鸡感染ＣＩＡＶ后器官组织的病理形态和超微结构变化进行了动态观察．结果显示，感染后７，１４，２１ｄ．骨髓明显黄化．造血组织面积减少，各系造血前体细胞数量均减少．透射电镜观察，ＣＩＡＶ感染后７，１４ｄ．骨髓原始红细胞和前体细胞胞浆线粒体等细胞器肿胀、空泡化；胞核和胞浆内均可见髓样小体．胸腺皮质细胞间解离、淋巴细胞核染色质边集、断裂，呈现细胞程序性死亡；肝细胞线粒体肿胀、空泡化和髓样小体多见，核染色质致密或断裂、溶解．研究结果表明，骨髓、胸腺和肝脏等器官均呈现明显损伤变化，并是ＣＩＡＶ侵害的重要靶器官．     

Differentiation of murine bone marrow stem cells in vitro: long-term growth promoted by a lymphocyte-derived mediator

In attempts to induce differentiation of lymphoid cells from hematopoietic stem cells in vitro, the effects of allogeneic effect factor on the growth of murine bone marrow cultures were studied. Allogeneic effect factor is a soluble mediator derived from mixed secondary murine leukocyte cultures. For several weeks it supported the growth of bone marrow cultures, as indicated by the maintenance of stem cell activity, cellular proliferation, and heterogeneity. Another lymphokine, T cell growth factor, did not, Pre-T lymphocytes could be detected in these cultures for several weeks.     

Mixed lymphocyte reactions and tissue transplantation tolerance

The induction of tolerance of Lewis histocompatibility antigens in BN rats inoculated at birth with BNI Lewis F(1) hybrid bone marrow cells, as revealed by the prolonged survival of Lewis skin grafts, is accompanied by markedly decreased reactivity in the mixed lymphocyte interaction. Blood lymphocytes from animals inoculated with lymph node cell suspensions also display diminished proliferative reactivity to hybrid BN/Lewis cells in the interaction. However, these recipients are not tolerant of Lewis skin grafts. Blood lymphocytes from BN rats inoculated neonatally with Lewis thymocytes fail to display any level of unresponsiveness in vitro, and such animals are not tolerant of Lewis skin grafts. The results suggest that in rats skin and marrow cells have histocompatibility antigens that are absent or poorly expressed on lymph node cells and thymocytes.     

雏鸡感染鸡传染性贫血病病毒分布情况研究

将鸡传染性贫血病毒强毒株C364和弱毒株C545分别接种1日龄鸡传染性贫血病毒抗体阴性的健康雏鸡,于接种后第7天和14天每组抽查3只测定血球压积值,并在接种后第1、3、5、7、10和14天各组分别宰杀3只雏鸡,取胸腺、肝脏和骨髓组织,用竞争性PCR测定其病毒含量.结果表明,雏鸡感染CAV,后表现为血球压积值下降,其中强毒感染鸡较弱毒感染鸡的红细胞压积值下降幅度大;病毒能够在雏鸡胸腺、肝脏和骨髓内繁殖,其中胸腺内病毒增殖最快,病毒滴度最高,肝脏其次,骨髓最低.     

Purified human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor: direct action on neutrophils

Neutrophil migration inhibition factor from T lymphocytes (NIF-T) is a lymphokine that acts to localize granulocytes. Medium conditioned by the Mo human T-lymphoblast cell line was used to purify NIF-T, a glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 22,000. The NIF-T was found to potently stimulate the growth of granulocyte and macrophage colonies from human bone marrow and colony formation by the KG-1 myeloid leukemia cell line. Thus a human lymphokine (NIF-T) that modulates the activities of mature neutrophilic granulocytes is also a colony-stimulating factor acting on precursors to induce growth and differentiation of new effector cells.     

Bone marrow: the bursa equivalent in man?

Human bone marrow lymphoid cells, particularly when enriched with plasma cells, as in multiple myeloma, respond to pokeweed mitogen and to antiserum to immunoglobulin but not to phytohemagglutinin. Cells of patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia of the bursal deficient type failed to respond to either pokeweed or to the antiserum to immunoglobulin. Leukocytes of the agammaglobulinemia patients however responded in a normal fashion to phytohemagglutinin. Just as the in vitro response to phytohemagglutinin is taken as an index of the thymus-dependent system, the in vitro response to both antiserum to immunoglobulin and pokeweed may be considered an index for the bursaldependent system. Human bone marrow, therefore, contains bursal cells and probably very few or no thymus cells.     

Prospects for human gene therapy

Procedures have now been developed for inserting functional genes into the bone marrow of mice. The most effective delivery system at present uses retroviral-based vectors to transfer a gene into murine bone marrow cells in culture. The genetically altered bone marrow is then implanted into recipient animals. These somatic cell gene therapy techniques are becoming increasingly efficient. Their future application in humans should result in at least partial correction of a number of genetic disorders. However, the safety of the procedures must still be established by further animal studies before human clinical trials would be ethical.     

Strain dependence of the antiproliferative action of interferon on murine erythroid precursors

Electrophoretically pure mouse interferon inhibits erythropoietin-dependent proliferation of committed erythroid precursors (CFU-E) obtained either from adult mouse bone marrow or from 14-day fetal mouse livers. The degree of inhibition is significantly influenced by the genotype of the cell donor; about ten times as much interferon is required to inhibit proliferation of CFU-E from C57BL/6 than is needed for comparable inhibition of CFU-E from BALB/c or Swiss mice. These strain-dependent results point to the existence of genes that influence the degree of the inhibitory effect of interferon on cell multiplication.     

骨髓间充质干细胞对放射性胸腺损伤的修复作用

目的观察骨髓间充质干细胞（MSCs）对放射性胸腺损伤的修复作用.方法 C57BL/6小鼠行1.75 Gy X线全身照射,每周1次,连续4周.实验设正常对照组、照射组及照射＋MSCs组,于末次照射后30、60、90 d称量各组小鼠体质量.取胸腺组织,计算胸腺质量指数,并通过组织学观察MSCs对胸腺组织损伤的修复作用.结果辐射组和MSCs组在照射期间体质量下降,在观察期间内,小鼠体质量随时间逐渐增加,并且MSCs组小鼠体质量略高于辐射组.对照组小鼠胸腺指数随周龄增大而逐渐减小,辐射组和MSCs组小鼠随照射后时间的延长胸腺指数逐渐增加,MSCs组90 d时胸腺指数与对照组小鼠接近.通过观察病理结果可知,正常对照组小鼠胸腺组织皮、髓质结构清楚.辐射组小鼠30 d时胸腺组织淋巴细胞可见变性、坏死,细胞数量减少;60 d时辐射组可见胸腺淋巴细胞出现修复性再生与增生;90 d时辐射组可见胸腺瘤癌前病变.MSCs移植30 d时胸腺组织皮质高度增生,髓质缩小,皮髓质内可见新生的淋巴组织;60 d时胸腺结构趋于正常.结论 MSCs可促进损伤胸腺再生与修复.     

土党参多糖对环磷酰胺所致小鼠白细胞减少症的影响

研究土党参多糖(CJP)对环磷酰胺所致小鼠白细胞减少症的影响。小鼠腹腔注射环磷酰胺,建立白细胞减少模型,以高、中、低3个不同剂量的土党参多糖分别灌胃给药,测定外周血象、脏器指数、骨髓DNA。给药组与模型组比,小鼠白细胞数量明显增高(P<0.01),脾脏指数、胸腺指数差异不明显,中剂量组骨髓DNA明显增加(P<0.05)。土党参多糖对环磷酰胺所致小鼠白细胞减少症有升高白细胞和促进小鼠骨髓造血功能的作用。     

THYMECTOMY: PROLONGATION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE IN THE ADULT MOUSE

The loss of acquired immunological tolerance of mice to bovine gamma globulin depended on the presence of the thymus. Mice were repeatedly injected with bovine gamma-globulin from birth until the age of 5 to 10 weeks and then thymectomized or sham operated. After 130 to 160 days without antigen, an accelerated (immune) disappearance of I(125) bovine gamma-globulin could be uniformly induced in controls while thymectomized mice remained tolerant. Adult thymectomized mice made tolerant by a single injection of bovine gamma-globulin lost tolerance more slowly than sham-operated controls.     

Antigenic relationships in mammalian DNA polymerase

Rabbit antibody was prepared against a high-molecular-weight DNA polymerase purified from the soluble fraction of calf thymus gland. This antibody does not inhibit terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase isolated from that source, but does inhibit both low-molecular-weight and high-molecular-weight DNA polymerases isolated from cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions of a number of mammalian tissues (mouse L cells, calf thymus, phytohemagglutinin-stimulated human lymphocytes, rat liver, and rabbit bone marrow). The results suggest that (i) no antigenic relationship exists between terminal transferase and DNA polymerase, (ii) common antigenic determinants exist in the DNA polymerases from all mammalian sources, and (iii) multiple forms of DNA polymerase found in mammalian, cells are related by having polypeptide sequences or subunits in common.     

A model of human acute lymphoblastic leukemia in immune-deficient SCID mice

A human acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cell line that was transplanted into immune-deficient SCID mice proliferated in the hematopoietic tissues, invaded various organs, and led to the death of the mice. The distribution of leukemic cells in SCID mice was similar to the course of the disease in children. A-1 cells marked with a retrovirus vector showed clonal evolution after the transplant. SCID mice that were injected with bone marrow from three patients with non-T ALL had leukemic cells in their bone marrow and spleen. This in vivo model of human leukemia is an approach to understanding leukemic growth and progression and is a novel system for testing new treatment strategies.     

A theory of self-nonself discrimination

1) Induction of humoral antibody formation involves the obligatory recognition of two determinants on an antigen, one by the receptor antibody of the antigen-sensitive cell and the other by carrier antibody (associative interaction). 2) Paralysis of antibody formation involves the obligatory recognition of only one determinant by the receptor antibody of the antigen-sensitive cell; that is, a nonimmunogenic molecule (a hapten) can paralyze antigen-sensitive cells. 3) There is competition between paralysis and induction at the level of the antigen-sensitive cell. 4) The mechanisms of low- and high-zone paralysis, and maintenance of the unresponsive state, are identical. 5) High-zone paralysis occurs when both the carrier antibody and the receptor antibody are saturated, so that associated interactions cannot take place. 6) The mechanisms of paralysis and induction for the carrier-antigen-sensitive cell are identical to those for the humoral-antigen-sensitive cell. 7) The formation of carrier-antigen-sensitive cells is thymus-dependent, whereas humoral-antigen-sensitive cells are derived from bone marrow. Since carrier antibody is required for induction, all antigens are thymus-dependent. 8) The interaction of antigen with the receptor antibody on an antigen-sensitive cell results in a conformational change in an invariant region of the receptor and consequently paralyzes the cell. As the receptor is probably identical to the induced antibody, all antibody molecules are expected to be able to undergo a conformational change on binding a hapten. The obligatory associated recognition by way of carrier antibody (inductive signal) involves a conformational change in the carrier antibody, leading to a second signal to the antigen-sensitive cell. 9) The foregoing requirements provide an explanation for self-nonself discrimination. Tolerance to self-antigens involves a specific deletion in the activity of both the humoral- and the carrier-antigen-sensitive cells.     

Bone marrow colonies: stimulation in vitro by supernatant from incubated human blood cells

A substance which stimulates growth of granulocytic and mononuclear cell colonies from mouse and human bone marrow was produced by incubated human blood cells. It is resistant to heat and freezing and is not dialyzable. Intact irradiated and unirradiated cells had very little activity, and sonically disrupted cells had no activity. The addition of plasma or sonically disrupted cells to the cell supernatant decreased its activity.