In:
Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 53, No. 1 ( 1993-01-01), p. 19-28
Abstract:
In op/op mice, immunohistochemical and electron microscopic techniques were used to examine the effects of the OP mutation on dendritic cell populations in lymphoid tissues and skin. In the thymic medulla, T cell zone of lymph nodes, and splenic white pulp of op/op mice, numbers of NLDC-145-positive dendritic cells were not decreased. Compared to the normal litter- mates, numbers of BM8-positive macrophages were reduced in various tissues of the mutant mice, including the lymphoid tissues. These dendritic cells of op/op mice expressed la antigens but not F4/80 and BM8 antigens. Ultrastructurally, the dendritic cells developed a tubulo- vesicular system typical of interdigitating cells, but they were abnormal in that interdigitation of their cytoplasmic processes was not prominent. In the epidermis of the op/op mice, dendritic cells expressed NLDC-145, F4/80, la antigens, and adenosine diphosphatase or adenosine triphosphatase activity, and numbers of NLDC-145-, la-, or ADPase-positive dendritic cells were reduced slightly, but these reductions were not significant statistically. Bir- beck granules were detected in most of them electron microscopically. These results indicate that nonlymphoid dendritic cells develop in the lymphoid tissues and skin of op/op mouse, suggesting that they are differentiated from granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cells or earlier hematopoietic cell precursors. J. Leukoc. Biol. 53: 19–28; 1993.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0741-5400
,
1938-3673
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date:
1993
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2026833-6
SSG:
12
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