THE ROLE OF SIGA+B CELLS IN ORAL IMMUNITY
THE ROLE OF SIGA+B CELLS IN ORAL IMMUNITY
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb44446.x
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1995-01-01
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STROBER, W
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EHRHARDT, RO;STROBER, W
The difference between the mucosal immune system and the central immune system has never been better demonstrated than in the case of interleukin and TCR gene-talgeted mice, where the absence of IG2 or IL-10 or alphabeta T cells leads to extensive mucosal inflammation in the absence of any significant inflammation of the central immune areas.'+ These very important findings indicate clearly that the mucosal immune system is regulated differently from the central immune system. Thus fir we are able to predict three major outcomes of an oral administration of antigen: a local immune response, a systemic immune response with humoral and cellular immunity, and a systemic tolerance (oral tolerance). While it is very clear that a strong oral immune response is accompanied by an IgA antibody response, it is still very controversial whether the quality of an IgA response can be used as a predictive marker for the outcome of a mucosal immune response, since the status of the mucosal immune response in orally tolerized animals is very unclear. Thus, to understand what determines the outcome of an oral antigenic challenge, it is very crucial to study T and B cell responses in its natural environment, eg, Peyer's patch. This is especially important for current oral vaccine research in its effort to overcome the induction of oral tolerance and accomplish strong and long-lasting immune responses. The work in our laboratory has been focusing fbr several years now on mucosal B cell differentiation (in particular sIgA+ B cell differentiation), and therefore this review summarizes current insights into this field. The findings relating to the events that de-termine that a sIgM+ B cell becomes a sIgA+ B cell (sIgA+ B cell switch differentiation) are discussed as well as the further elucidation of recent findings in our laboratory relating to terminal B cell differentiation.