CYTOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF RADIATION-CHIMAERAS
CYTOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF RADIATION-CHIMAERAS
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DOI:
10.1038/177452a0
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发表时间:
1956-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
LOUTIT, JF
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作者:
FORD, CE;HAMERTON, JL;LOUTIT, JF
HE term chimæra, long used in botany, has recently been adopted by zoologists to denote an animal the constituent cells of which are of more than one genotypic or antigenic lineage. The state may occur naturally, as the freemartin in cattle. An example has even been reported in manº. It may be induced by the injection of foreign colls into the developing foetusº. In all these instances it is believed that cells from one individual are grafted into another during foetal life when the immunological mechanisms are immature. In these circumstances the natural and the foreign stock appear to be able to develop sido by side. After the birth of the animal the effect of administering homologous cells or tissues changes and the homograft reaction occurs; following a preliminary “take”, the host develops an immune response and as a result sheds the graft. It has been shown by Jacobson et al.. º, and soon after by Lorenz et al.*, that adult mice irradiated with an expectedly lethal dose of X-rays could recover if grafted or injected with hæmopoietic tissue from a normal mouse. Consequently it was not surprising that they postulated recovery to be due to a “humoral'or chemical factor in the material given, rather than to replacement of the damaged tissues of the host by foreign cells. Furthermore, Lorenz and his group showed that even heterospecific material from guinea pigs and rats could in some circumstances produce a similar result* s*. No example of the compatibility of a heterograft had been recorded, so the humoral theory seemed almost established. It received additional support from the investigations of Cole and his collaborators7, who showed that homogenates in which the splenic material had been subjected to severe trauma were as effective as suspensions. On differential centrifugation of these homogenates the active fraction was the heaviest, consisting almost wholly of nuclei. The activity of this fraction was destroyed by solutions of crystalline deoxyribonuclease and trypsin, which were believed to act specifically on naked nuclei and not to damage any intact cells which might have been left after homogenization*. Cole and Ellisº considered the active principle to be macromolecular, particulate and probably deoxyribonucleoprotein.On the other hand, there are the observations from Our laboratory. Inbred mice irradiated and treated with homologous cells survive for short periods only compared with similar mice given isologous cellsº. The material used for injection, normally very labile, is preservod by glycerol at–79 C., as are some cells; and prior administration of homologous cells to elicit an immune response destroys the therapeutic effect of a second, post-irradiation injection of identical materialº. When a single injection of homologous cells is made after irradiation, the donor's antigens persist and apparently increase in the host, and antibodies previously induced in the donor appear in the host and increase in titre (Mitchison, NA, unpublished work). Recent