Local and Systemic T Cell Responses to Purified Proteins Following Cow's Milk Feeding in Guinea Pigs

Autor: Suhasini R. Chitla, H. Lee Leary, David N. McMurray
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Journal of Nutritional Immunology. 5:55-69
ISSN: 1049-5150
DOI: 10.1300/j053v05n03_05
Popis: Cell-mediated immune mechanisms may contribute to hypersensitivity reactions following ingestion of cow's milk. We assessed in vitro lymphoproliferation to purified cow's milk proteins in sensitized lymphocytes from the spleen, mesenteric lymph nodes and peripheral blood of guinea pigs consuming cow's milk. Blood and lymph node cells were quite responsive but splenocytes responded poorly. Orally sensitized guinea pigs responded best to a-casein, β-casein and β-lactoglobulin and minimally to a-lactalbumin. Even two months after oral exposure, guinea pig mesenteric lymph node lymphocytes still proliferated when cultured with a-casein and β-casein. Refeeding cow's milk to guinea pigs after a milk-free interval following the initial exposure did not boost the proliferative response and may have induced suppression. The effect of nylon wool column enrichment of T cells prior to culture demonstrated the essential role of antigen-presenting cells in T cell activation by cow's milk proteins. Our results ...
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