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Title: | IL-2 protects against anti-CD3-induced cell death in human medullary thymocytes |
Authors: | Nieto, M. Ángela CSIC ORCID ; González, A.; López-Rivas, Abelardo CSIC ORCID; Díaz-Espada, F.; Gambón, F. | Issue Date: | Sep-1990 | Publisher: | American Association of Immunologists | Citation: | Journal of Immunology 145(5): 1364-1368 (1990) | Abstract: | In recent years, several studies have confirmed the clonal elimination of thymocytes with receptors that recognize Ag and MHC molecules present on the membrane of thymic stromal cells, a process that may be relevant to the establishment of self-tolerance. In our work, we show that anti-CD3 treatment of single positive CD4+ or CD8+ human medullary thymocytes (obtained by anti-CD1a plus C) induces their apoptotic death. Some events commonly associated with the early steps of normal activation (IL-2R expression, increase in cytoplasmic Ca2+) are also induced after anti-CD3 treatment. Nevertheless, IL-2 is not secreted by these activated cells. The addition of exogenous IL-2 inhibits the apoptosis induced by anti-CD3. We suggest that the lack of secretion of IL-2 by medullary thymocytes may be a physiologic mechanism implicated in the process of negative selection that leads to tolerance. | Description: | 5 páginas. | Publisher version (URL): | http://www.jimmunol.org/content/145/5/1364.abstract | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/32225 | ISSN: | 0022-1767 |
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