EXTRATHYMIC DELETION OF CD8+ ALLOREACTIVE T CELLS IN A TRANSGENIC T CELL RECEPTOR MODEL OF NEONATAL TOLERANCE1
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Immunological tolerance to foreign antigen is most easily achieved during the neonatal period. Although deletion of T cells has been demonstrated in neonatal tolerance models in which donor and recipient express different MHC class II molecules, the requirement for deletion in MHC class I-disparate models is less clear. To address this issue, we used as recipient the T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic mouse (TgM) strain 2C in which the majority of CD8+ T cells express a single alpha/beta TCR alloreactive to H-2Ld, thus facilitating direct monitoring of the class I alloreactive population. METHODS: Newborn (less than 24 hr of age) 2C TgM received injections i.v.with syngeneic C57BL/6J (H-2b) (B6) or semiallogeneic (B6xDBA)F1 (H-2bd; H-2Ld+) splenocytes. Adults were subsequently analyzed in terms of tolerance, deletion of 2C+ T cells, and chimerism. RESULTS: The results showed that semiallogeneic-, but not syngeneic-, injected neonates were unresponsive as adults to H-2Ld-expressing target cells in vitro and the majority of these mice accepted H-2Ld+ skin grafts. Delaying the injection to 72 hr after birth or reducing the number of cells injected essentially abolished in vivo unresponsiveness in 2C recipients. Thus, the 2C TCR Tg model demonstrates the characteristics typical of neonatal tolerance. Injection of 2C neonates within 24 hr of birth with semiallogeneic versus syngeneic cells led to more than a 12-fold reduction of CD8+ 2C+ T cells in adult spleen and LNCs. In contrast, deletion of CD8+ 2C+ cells in adult thymus was not consistently observed. Based on MHC class II expression to distinguish donor (I-E+) and recipient (I-E-) cells, semiallogeneic-injected mice were chimeric in spleens and lymph nodes (LNs). CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate that neonatal MHC class I tolerance in the adult is associated with low level hematopoietic chimerism and extrathymic deletion of alloreactive CD8+ T cells.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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