Macrophage regulation of DNA synthesis in lymphoid cells: effects of a soluble factor from macrophages |
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Authors: | S R Waldman A A Gottlieb |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Addition of rat peritoneal macrophages to nonadherent rat spleen cells in culture results in enhancement or suppression of DNA synthesis depending on the ratio of macrophages to lymphocytes. At high ratios of macrophages to lymphocytes (1:5), suppression can be observed as early as four hours. Macrophages suppress incorporation of thymidine (TdR) by nonadherent spleen, thymus and bone marrow cells, in most instances, to less than 5% of that observed in culture to which macrophages were not added. In the presence of macrophages, incorporation of [3H]uridine and [14C] amino acids by spleen cells was also moderately suppressed. Based on 51Chromium release and dye exclusion assays, it appears that suppression is not due to cytotoxicity. Furthermore, suppression of [3H]TdR incorporation by nonadherent spleen cells is reversible, in the presence of an antigenic stimulus, following removal of the macrophages from the cultures. The suppressive effects are not elicited by extracts of macrophages, freeze-thawed or heated macrophages, but appear to be due to a low molecular weight, heat stable factor released into the macrophage culture fluid. |
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