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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 148, Issue 4 1049-1054, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Cyclosporin A and FK506 mediate differential effects on T cell activation in vivo

DK Bishop and W Li
Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132.

Modified limiting dilution analysis techniques were used to evaluate the effects of the immunosuppressants cyclosporin A (CsA) and FK506 on alloantigen-induced T cell activation in vivo. Treatment of sponge matrix allograft recipients with either CsA or FK506 inhibited lymphocytic infiltration of the allograft, a process thought to be dependent on local lymphokine production. In addition, both immunosuppressants markedly reduced the absolute number of lymphocytes recovered from the draining lymph nodes (LN) and prevented CTL activation in the LN. However, Ag-primed helper T lymphocytes (HTL) were present in the draining LN of sponge allograft recipients treated with CsA, but not in recipients treated with FK506. T cell depletion experiments were performed to determine the phenotype of primed HTL in the LN of untreated and CsA-treated sponge allograft recipients. In untreated sponge allograft recipients, CD4+ and CD8+ Ag-primed HTL were present in the draining LN in equivalent numbers. In contrast, the majority of primed HTL in the LN of CsA-treated sponge allograft recipients were CD8+, rather than CD4+ T cells. These observations indicate that CsA and FK506 exert distinct in vivo effects at the level of HTL priming, and CD4+ and CD8+ HTL exhibit differential sensitivity to CsA in vivo.


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