The Journal of Immunology, Vol 143, Issue 4 1087-1093, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Occurrence of mature B (IgM+, B220+) and T (CD3+) lymphocytes in scid mice

AM Carroll, RR Hardy and MJ Bosma
Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111.

Scid mice with and without detectable serum Ig (scid Ig+ and scid Ig- mice, respectively) were examined for the presence of mature "leaky" lymphocytes by flow microfluorimetry with the use of antibodies to B (IgM, B220) and T (CD3, CD4, CD8) lymphocyte surface Ag. The data showed that leaky scid mice are more frequent than is evident from serum Ig analysis and that the incidence of detectable B and T cells increases with age. IgM+ B220+ cells were not detectable in young adult mice (3 mo old), but in old mice (greater than or equal to 1 yr old) they were routinely present in the peritoneal cavity though not in the spleen. Striking differences in the representation of T cell subsets were seen in the thymus of these two age groups. Most young adult mice contained CD3- populations of CD4/CD8 double positive cells, and in some cases, CD4 or CD8 single positive cells as well. By contrast, identifiable T lineage cells in old mice were all CD3+ and predominantly single positive for CD4 or CD8. Detectable peripheral T cell populations numbered less than 10(5) cells, and the representation of T subset markers (CD4, CD8) varied widely among individual mice; further, Southern blot analysis of TCR gene rearrangements in the DNA of polyclonally stimulated lymphoid cultures from these mice showed very restricted heterogeneity relative to that of cultures from normal mice. We conclude that most leaky mice contain very few T cell clones.

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