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Autoimmune mice develop antibodies to thymic hormone: production of anti-thymulin monoclonal autoantibodies from diabetic (db/db) and B/W mice. 1984

M Dardenne, and W Savino, and J F Bach

Monoclonal autoantibodies specific for the thymic hormone thymulin (FTS-Zn) were obtained by cell fusion with the use of spleen cells from nonimmunized autoimmune B/W or diabetic (db/db) mice and myeloma cells. Culture supernatants were screened for their ability to inhibit in vitro and in vivo the biologic activity of synthetic and natural hormone and to bind specifically to thymic epithelial cells in indirect immunofluorescence. This binding was completely abolished by preincubation of the antibodies with the synthetic hormone. These monoclonal autoantibodies were shown by double labeling experiments to bind the same thymic epithelial cells as the antithymulin monoclonal antibodies prepared by immunization with thymic epithelial cells. These autoantibodies directed against the low m.w. thymic hormone thymulin do not explain the low thymulin serum level found in those mice because there is a concomitant decrease in the number of thymulin-containing cells in the thymus, but they could play a role in the maintenance of T lymphocyte defects observed in these mice.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008807 Mice, Inbred BALB C An inbred strain of mouse that is widely used in IMMUNOLOGY studies and cancer research. BALB C Mice, Inbred,BALB C Mouse, Inbred,Inbred BALB C Mice,Inbred BALB C Mouse,Mice, BALB C,Mouse, BALB C,Mouse, Inbred BALB C,BALB C Mice,BALB C Mouse
D008810 Mice, Inbred C57BL One of the first INBRED MOUSE STRAINS to be sequenced. This strain is commonly used as genetic background for transgenic mouse models. Refractory to many tumors, this strain is also preferred model for studying role of genetic variations in development of diseases. Mice, C57BL,Mouse, C57BL,Mouse, Inbred C57BL,C57BL Mice,C57BL Mice, Inbred,C57BL Mouse,C57BL Mouse, Inbred,Inbred C57BL Mice,Inbred C57BL Mouse
D008817 Mice, Mutant Strains Mice bearing mutant genes which are phenotypically expressed in the animals. Mouse, Mutant Strain,Mutant Mouse Strain,Mutant Strain of Mouse,Mutant Strains of Mice,Mice Mutant Strain,Mice Mutant Strains,Mouse Mutant Strain,Mouse Mutant Strains,Mouse Strain, Mutant,Mouse Strains, Mutant,Mutant Mouse Strains,Mutant Strain Mouse,Mutant Strains Mice,Strain Mouse, Mutant,Strain, Mutant Mouse,Strains Mice, Mutant,Strains, Mutant Mouse
D003921 Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental Diabetes mellitus induced experimentally by administration of various diabetogenic agents or by PANCREATECTOMY. Alloxan Diabetes,Streptozocin Diabetes,Streptozotocin Diabetes,Experimental Diabetes Mellitus,Diabete, Streptozocin,Diabetes, Alloxan,Diabetes, Streptozocin,Diabetes, Streptozotocin,Streptozocin Diabete
D006825 Hybridomas Cells artificially created by fusion of activated lymphocytes with neoplastic cells. The resulting hybrid cells are cloned and produce pure MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES or T-cell products, identical to those produced by the immunologically competent parent cell. Hybridoma
D000042 Absorption The physical or physiological processes by which substances, tissue, cells, etc. take up or take in other substances or energy.
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D000911 Antibodies, Monoclonal Antibodies produced by a single clone of cells. Monoclonal Antibodies,Monoclonal Antibody,Antibody, Monoclonal
D001323 Autoantibodies Antibodies that react with self-antigens (AUTOANTIGENS) of the organism that produced them. Autoantibody
D001666 Binding Sites, Antibody Local surface sites on antibodies which react with antigen determinant sites on antigens (EPITOPES.) They are formed from parts of the variable regions of FAB FRAGMENTS. Antibody Binding Sites,Paratopes,Antibody Binding Site,Binding Site, Antibody,Paratope

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