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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 164, 期 11, 页码 5771-5781出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.11.5771
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI/DK44484, AI42635] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK48799] Funding Source: Medline
Injection of autoantigens in IFA has been one of the most effective ways of preventing experimental, T cell-mediated, autoimmune disease in mice. The mechanism that underlies this protection has, however, remained controversial, with clonal deletion, induction of suppressor cells or of type 2 immunity being implicated at one time or another. Using high resolution enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) analysis, we have revisited this paradigm. As models of autoimmunity against sequestered and readily accessible autoantigens, we studied experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, induced by myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein, proteolipid protein, myelin basic protein, and renal tubular Ag-induced interstitial nephritis, We showed that the injection of each of these Ags in FFA was immunogenic and CD4 memory cells producing IL-2, IL-4, and IL-5, but essentially no IFN-gamma, IgG1, but not IgG2a, autoantibodies were produced. The engaged T cells were not classic Th2 cells in that IL-4 and IL-5 were produced by different cells. The IFA-induced violation of self tolerance, including the deposition of specific autoantibodies in the respective target organs, occurred in the absence of detectable pathology. Exhaustion of the pool of naive precursor cells was shown to be one mechanism of the IFA-induced tolerance. In addition, while the IFA-primed T cells acted as suppressor cells, in that they adoptively transferred disease protection, they did not interfere with the emergence of a type 1 T cell response in the adoptive host. Both active and passive tolerance mechanisms, therefore, contribute to autoantigen:IFA-induced protection from autoimmune disease.
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