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  • Title: Functional heterogeneities among concanavalin A-activated OKT4+ and OKT8+ cells by using autologous erythrocyte rosette technique.
    Author: Takada S, Ueda Y, Murakawa Y, Suzuki N, Sakane T.
    Journal: J Clin Invest; 1983 Dec; 72(6):2060-71. PubMed ID: 6227636.
    Abstract:
    Normal human peripheral blood T lymphocytes activated by concanavalin A (Con A) were fractionated into OKT4+ and OKT8+ populations by complement-dependent cell lysis using OKT8 and OKT4 antibodies, respectively. By using the preferential ability of some, but not all, Con A-activated T cells to form rosettes with autologous erythrocytes, each population was further divided into autorosetting cells and nonautorosetting cells, and thus Con A-activated OKT4+ autorosetting, OKT4+ nonautorosetting, OKT8+ autorosetting, and OKT8+ nonautorosetting cells were obtained. The immune regulatory function of these populations was then investigated using a pokeweed mitogen-driven B cell plaque-forming cell system. These studies demonstrated that (a) autorosetting cells can exert potent suppressor activity regardless of their phenotypes of OKT4+ and OKT8+ antigens, and fail to help B cell differentiation; suppressor function mediated by these cells is radiosensitive; moreover, receptors for autologous erythrocytes may constitute either the interleukin 2 (IL2) receptors themselves or a component of an IL2 receptor-effector complex involved in modulating the growth signal that IL2 transmits to T cells; (b) OKT4+ nonrosetting cells serve adequately as radioresistant helper cells, but are devoid of suppressor cells; and (c) OKT8+ nonrosetting cells are found to lack either suppressor or helper activity, suggesting that they may belong to a T lymphocyte subset distinct from the subsets related to immune regulation. The results lead us, therefore, to the conclusion that there may exist functional heterogeneities among both the OKT4+ and OKT8+ populations; these heterogeneities can be dissected by virtue of the autologous erythrocyte rosette technique.
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