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The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 130, 1367-1393, Copyright © 1969 by The Rockefeller University Press

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LOCALIZATION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL COMPLEXES FIXING ß1C (C3) IN GERMINAL CENTERS OF LYMPH NODES

K. J. Gajl-Peczalska M.D.1, A. J. Fish M.D.1, H. J. Meuwissen M.D.1, D. Frommel M.D.1, and R. A. Good M.D.1

1 From the Pediatric Research Laboratories of the Variety Club Heart Hospital, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

28 human and 60 experimentally stimulated rabbit lymph nodes were studied by means of light microscopy and immunofluorescence. 21 of the 28 human lymph nodes showed well-developed germinal centers. IgM, IgG, and the ß1C component of complement were found in the same distribution within germinal centers when examined in serial cryostat sections. 36 rabbits were stimulated with Brucella antigen, and 24 rabbits with BSA. A strikingly consistent correlation between distribution and appearance of specific staining for rabbit ß1C, IgM, and IgG was observed; when lymph nodes were stimulated with BSA, antigen and specific antibody were present. Treatment of unfixed sections with citrate-buffered saline at low pH resulted in complete elution of immunoglobulins, ß1C, and BSA from rabbit germinal centers, and in marked diminution of IgG and IgM in human germinal centers, while at the same time plasma cells remained strongly fluorescent. Specific selective fixation of heterologous (human) complement in rabbit germinal centers positive for ß1C, IgG, IgM, and BSA was also obtained.

These data present strong evidence for the existence within germinal centers of antigen-antibody complexes which fix at least the ß1C component of complement in vivo. The possibility of complete elution of immunoglobulins from rabbit germinal centers can be taken as evidence that, at least for 20 days after primary and secondary stimulation, a major component of the immunoglobulins present in germinal centers is not produced locally but accumulates at the surface of cells.

 Submitted on June 30, 1969


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