Inhibition of mouse bone marrow granulocyte-macrophage colony formation by factors derived from natural killer cells: an in vitro model for hybrid resistance |
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Authors: | B Lukomska M Hansson R Kiessling |
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Institution: | Department for Surgical Research & Transplantology, Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. |
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Abstract: | Investigations were performed to study whether soluble factors produced by NK-cells could mediate "hybrid resistance" in vitro. NK-cells enriched from spleens of B6D2F1 hybrid mice were incubated with parental B6 bone marrow, and the effect of the derived supernatants on the development of granulocyte-macrophage colony forming cells (GM-CFC) was assessed. Cell free supernatants obtained from low density cells (LDC) of B6D2F1 hybrids stimulated with bone marrow cells (BMC) from B6 mice inhibited GM-CFC formation. The inhibition was similar using B6, D2 or B6D2F1 bone marrow cells as the targets for GM-CFC growth. Our findings suggest that NK cells from F1 hybrid mice when stimulated with BMC from B6 mice release inhibitory factors, different from IFN-gamma and that this production may represent a mechanism of natural resistance to parental H-2b bone marrow grafts. |
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