The susceptibility of neonatal and adult B lymphocytes to tolerance induction was analyzed by a modification of the in vitro splenic focus technique. This technique permits stimulation of individual hapten-specific clonal precursor cells from both neonatal and adult donors. Neonatal or adult BALB/c spleen cells were adoptively transferred into irradiated, syngeneic, adult recipients which had b...

The in vitro secondary stimulation of the production of anti-hapten antibody has been analyzed with a view to elucidating the role of the carrier molecule and cell-to-cell interactions in this response. Stimulation was carried out on fragment cultures of the spleens of irradiated BALB/c mice which had been reconstituted with 3-4 x 10(7) spleen cells from isologous mice previously immunized with...

Interleukin (IL)-10 is a potent immunosuppressive cytokine that has been found to be present at the tumor site in a wide variety of human cancers, including transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. Using a murine bladder tumor (MB49), which we show to express the male transplantation antigen (HY), we tested the hypothesis that IL-10 at the tumor site can block the generation of a tumor-speci...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been recently shown to inhibit T-cell proliferation to polyclonal stimuli. We characterized the effect of MSCs of bone marrow origin on the T-cell response of naive and memory T cells to their cognate antigenic epitopes. The immune response to murine male transplantation antigens, HY, was selected because the peptide identity and major histocompatibility compl...

One of the factors that increases the risk of graft-versus-host disease following allogeneic stem cell transplantation is the use of multiparous females as donors. Since minor histocompatibility (H) antigens are the main targets of graft-versus-host and graft-versus-leukemia responses, we tested the hypothesis that multiparity could prime minor H antigen-specific T cells. We examined the periph...

BACKGROUND Holley (Hy) is a high-incidence antigen of the Dombrock blood group system (ISBT 014), present in almost 100% of most populations and more than 99% of Blacks. Since anti-Hy is an extremely rare antibody, data on its clinical relevance and in particular on a possible hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) are scarce. CASE REPORT The pregnant patient underwent two autologo...

The crystal structure of the title compound, C(14)H(17)NO(2), solved and refined against synchrotron diffraction data, contains one formula unit in an asymmetric unit. In the crystal, mol-ecules form right-handed helices located at the 2(1) screw axis parallel to the a-axis direction, generated by O-H⋯N hydrogen bonding between the hy-droxy group and carbonitrile group of an adjacent mol-ecule.

In the title compound, C(20)H(21)NO(4), the two benzene rings are almost perpendicular to each other, making a dihedral angle of 86.1 (7)°. The hy-droxy-ethanimine group is essentially coplanar with the benzene ring, the largest deviation from the mean plane of the hy-droxy-ethanimine [C=N-OH] group being 0.011 (1) Å for the O atom. An intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bond occurs. The mol-ecules ...