RESUMO
In this paper, it has been found that such stressors as operation or swimming in cold watermay suppress the mitogenic response of murine spleen cells to ConA or LPS, whichis closely related to the action of suppressor cells.Using the plastic-adherence method, the plastic-adherence cells in spleen(PAC)was removed or obtained. The difference of mitogenic responsivebefore and after the removal of PAC is very apparent in stressed mice, being much lower thannormal before the renioval of PAC and near to normal after removing PAC. It is interestingthat the lymphocyte transformation stimulated by LPS is suppressed predominantly after swim-ming stress instead of those by ConA in operation stress.It has also been observed that theindomethacin may block the induction of suppressor PAC by stress, which means that the pro-staglandins may play an important role in the induction and action of suppressor PAC.