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Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 172, 395-398, Copyright © 1990 by Rockefeller University Press
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H Kosaka, H Matsubara, S Sogoh, M Ogata, T Hamaoka and H Fujiwara
Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
The effects of cyclosporin A (CsA) on influencing the intrathymic clonal deletion were investigated by using our established thymic stromal cell clone with capacities to express Ia antigens and to produce a unique T cell growth factor. The following were revealed: (a) T cell clone with a given specificity was killed on the Ia+ stromal cell monolayer in the presence of the relevant antigens, a process depending on T cell receptor (TCR) stimulation; and (b) CsA allowed the T cell clone to continuously proliferate even during TCR stimulation by virtue of the stromal cell-derived T cell growth factor. This paper describes an in vitro model of a mechanism by which CsA is responsible for the generation of normally "forbidden" T cell clones.
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