Effect of environmental temperature on in vitro cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CMC) and graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) in ginbuna crucian carp (Carassius auratus langsdorfii)
Effect of environmental temperature on in vitro cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CMC) and graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) in ginbuna crucian carp (Carassius auratus langsdorfii)
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DOI:
10.1006/fsim.1998.0176
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发表时间:
1999-04-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Nakanishi, T
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作者:
Fischer, U;Ototake, M;Nakanishi, T
Fish belong to the poikilothermic vertebrates and vital functions including cellular and humoral immune responses are influenced by environmental temperature. Weiss and Avtalion (1977) first suggested that in carp helper memory maturation is more suppressed at low temperatures than antibody synthesis. In channel catfish, suppression of humoral immunity at low temperature was found to be a result of inhibitory e# ect on T helper cells rather than B cells (Clem et al., 1984; Miller & Clem, 1984; Bly & Clem, 1991; Vallejo et al., 1992), and mixed leucocyte reaction as an in vitro test for T helper cell function is suppressed at low temperature (Miller et al., 1986). Cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CMC) includes non-specific and specific reactions. Non-specific cytotoxic cells (NCC; Evans & Jaso-Friedmann, 1992), the functional equivalent to mammalian natural killer (NK) cells, are a# ected by temperature in fish (Kurata et al., 1995; LeMorvan-Rocher et al., 1995; Pettey & McKinney, 1983). Specific CMC is performed by cytotoxic T cells in higher vertebrates. Cytotoxic T cells recognise other cells mainly by the interaction of their T cell receptor and CD8 molecules with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) expressed on all cells. If the MHC is incompatible, eg in the case of allogeneic cells, or if the peptide expressed together with the MHC is foreign, those cells will undergo killing by specific cytotoxic cells. Specific cell-mediated cytotoxicity against hapten modified syngeneic cells (Verlhac et al., 1990) and allograft rejection (Hildemann, 1957; Rijkers, 1982; Nakanishi, 1985) is suppressed at low temperature in fish. However, it has not been demonstrated clearly whether mainly helper cells or cytotoxic cells are suppressed. Specific CMC against allogeneic fish cells has been shown in vitro (Fischer et al., 1998a). In this in vitro assay mainly specific cytotoxic cells are involved. The generation of cytotoxic cells is performed in vivo by sensitisation of donor fish using allogeneic grafting. Primary antigen recognition, antigen processing, antigen presentation and proliferation of cytotoxic cells is already completed during sensitisation. Thus, this assay is a good tool to study the influence of temperature on specific cytotoxic cells.