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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 88(3): 419-25, July-Sept. 1993. tab, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-148796

ABSTRACT

The observation that murine thymocytes increase their proliferation to interleukin 1 (IL-1) in the presence of phytohemagglutinin (PHA) when pre-incubated with interleukin 2 (IL-2) allowed the introduction of a modified assay for the measurement of IL-1 or the search of thymocyte-inducing proliferative activities in biological samples. Pre-incubation of thymocytes for 24 hr with 50 u/ml IL-2, followed by washings, elicited their maximal response to IL-1 in the usual lymphocyte activating factor (LAF) assay. This suggests that sequential events lead to thymocyte activation. The responsiveness is three to five fold greater than, and the total time of assay is the same as that of the LAF assay. Interestingly, pre-incubation with IL-2 renders thymocytes more sensitive than responsive to crude monocyte conditioned media. The use of the MTT colorimetric method for the assessment of thymocyte proliferation, and of the lectin jacalin as a co-mitogen are suggested as alternatives to be used in co-stimulatory assays


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Animals , Male , Mice , Interleukin-1/physiology , Interleukin-2/pharmacology , Phytohemagglutinins/pharmacology , Thymus Gland/cytology , Culture Media , Cell Division , Mice, Inbred BALB C
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AMB rev. Assoc. Med. Bras ; 37(2): 99-106, abr.-jun. 1991. tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-97761

ABSTRACT

O estudo da participaçäo direta de citocinas, tais como os fatores estimuladores do crescimento de colônias, as interleucinas, e outros, no controle das etapas da hematopoese, vem sendo prejudicado pela presença in vitro de células näo-hematopoéticas, capazes de intermediar os efeitos das citocinas sobre os precursores hematopoéticos. Recentemente pôde-se verificar que o antígeno CD34 se expressa na membrana de essencialmente todas as células pluripotenciais, mas näo da maioria das células diferenciadas do sangue ou do estroma da medula óssea, o que veios a permitir experimentos in vitro com populaçöes ricas em células pluripotenciais, purificadas com base na expressäo deste antígeno. Tais experimentos permitiram uma reavaliaçäo dos resultados obtidos previamente com populaçöes menos puras e ampliaram o conhecimento sobre a participaçäo das diferentes citocinas nos processos de diferenciaçäo das distintas linhagens hematopoéticas, tema desta revisäo. O papel de interferons, fatores necrosantes de tumor e fatores de transformaçäo de crescimento ß na regulaçäo negativa da hematopoese säo também analisados


Subject(s)
Cytokines/physiology , Hematopoiesis/physiology , In Vitro Techniques , Transforming Growth Factors , Colony-Stimulating Factors , Interferons/physiology , Interleukin-1/physiology , Interleukin-4/physiology , Interleukins/physiology , Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/physiology
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