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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 9 3026-3032, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Effect of cyclosporin A on lymphopoiesis. I. Absence of mature T cells in thymus and periphery of bone marrow transplanted mice treated with cyclosporin A

A Kosugi, SO Sharrow and GM Shearer
Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.

In this report, we investigate the effect of cyclosporin A (CsA) on lymphopoiesis, and demonstrate that CsA selectively abrogates the development of CD4+CD8- and CD4-CD8+ T cells (single positive cells) in the thymus. This developmental arrest results in the complete absence of mature T cells (assessed both by phenotypic and functional analyses) in the spleen of syngeneic bone marrow transplanted mice subsequently treated with CsA. In contrast to its remarkable effect on T cells, CsA had no detectable effect on B cells differentiation. In the thymus, the generation of CD4+CD8+ thymocytes was not affected by CsA treatment, and CD4-CD8- thymocytes of CsA-treated mice expressed surface markers characteristic of normal CD4-CD8- thymocytes, and exhibited normal functional activity when stimulated with anti-CD3 antibody. Thus, CsA appears to prevent the generation of mature, single positive T cells without affecting the development of immature T cells in the thymus. In addition to its immunosuppressive effect on immunocompetent cells, these results indicate a novel feature of CsA, which involves arrest of T cell differentiation, a finding that may be important for applications in clinical bone marrow transplantation.


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