Comparative research on cellular immunostimulation by whole-body irradiation
Dietz, R.; Schwarze, G.
Strahlentherapie und Onkologie Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft . 168(4): 240-243
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0179-7158 PMID: 1574774 Document Number: 396052
The effect of the cellular immune response by total body irradiation was investigated. The transplant survival (skin grafts) was determined as immune parameter. Donors were colony-bred Wistar rats and recipients were colony-bred Sprague-Dawley rats. The investigations were carried out with irradiated rats and with rats irradiated after thymectomy and/or adrenalectomy as well as with animals without irradiation. A single total-body irradiation (1 and 2 Gy) was administered. The skin graft survival in irradiated rats was significant shorter (radiogenic immunostimulation) than in unirradiated rats; there were no significant differences between the operated (thymectomy and/or adrenalectomy) and not operated animals. Including precedent examinations this radiogenic immunostimulation is caused by a relatively selective inactivation of T-suppressor cells.