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  • Title: Lymphocyte function in experimental African trypanosomiasis. III. Loss of lymph node cell responsiveness.
    Author: Wellhausen SR, Mansfield JM.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1980 Mar; 124(3):1183-6. PubMed ID: 6444647.
    Abstract:
    The relationship between immunosuppression and suppressor cell activity in the lymphoid organs of animals with experimental African trypanosomiasis has been examined further. In the present study we measure the primary in vitro PFC response to SRBC by spleen and lymph node cells from Trypanosoma rhodesiense infected or drug-cured C57BL/6 mice. Passive transfer experiments with this culture system tested for the presence or absence of suppressor cells. We demonstrate that infected mice exhibit immunosuppression in the spleen cell population several weeks before becoming suppressed at the level of the lymph node cell populations. Although suppressor cells are present in immunosuppressed spleen cell populations, suppression of lymph node cell responsiveness was not attributable to suppressor cells detectable withi, lymph nodes. After Berenil treatment of terminally infected mice immunocompetence was restored gradually, first to the lymph node cells and subsequently to the spleen cell population. Recovery of spleen cell responsiveness was attributable to the loss of detectable suppressor cell activity within spleens. These results demonstrate that there is anatomical restriction of the suppressor cell population to trypanosome-infected mouse spleen and that loss of immunocompetence in the lymph nodes may be due to factors unrelated to suppressor cell effects.
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