Manifestations of GVHD in Recipients Transplanted With Mutant T Cells
Experiment No. . | Day . | No. Evaluated . | Body Weight . | Percentage of B Cells . | |||
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Control . | Mutant . | Control . | Mutant . | Control . | Mutant . | ||
1 | 91 | 5 | 2 | 101 ± 2.2 | 72 ± 8.5 | 53 ± 3.3 | 10 ± 6.0 |
2 | 71 | 5 | 4 | 96 ± 2.0 | 74 ± 2.1 | 64 ± 2.5 | 23 ± 3.2 |
3 | 70 | 4 | 3 | 105 ± 2.1 | 74 ± 6.4 | 59 ± 2.0 | 17 ± 5.0 |
Experiment No. . | Day . | No. Evaluated . | Body Weight . | Percentage of B Cells . | |||
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Control . | Mutant . | Control . | Mutant . | Control . | Mutant . | ||
1 | 91 | 5 | 2 | 101 ± 2.2 | 72 ± 8.5 | 53 ± 3.3 | 10 ± 6.0 |
2 | 71 | 5 | 4 | 96 ± 2.0 | 74 ± 2.1 | 64 ± 2.5 | 23 ± 3.2 |
3 | 70 | 4 | 3 | 105 ± 2.1 | 74 ± 6.4 | 59 ± 2.0 | 17 ± 5.0 |
Groups of 5 lethally irradiated (1,100 cGy) BALB/c recipients were transplanted with grafts containing 40 × 106T-cell–depleted B6 or B6-Ly5.1 marrow cells alone (control) or with 1.0 × 107 CD3 cells from perforin-deficient, Fas-ligand–defective donors added to the graft (mutant). Body weight was measured as a percentage of the pretransplant baseline, and the percentage of B220+, CD3− cells in the blood lymphoid gate was measured by two-color flow cytometry among recipients surviving on the indicated day when the experiment was terminated. Shown are mean values ± 1 SEM for three consecutive experiments. In each experiment, the differences between groups were statistically significant. Experiments no. 1 and 3 were performed with mutant cells from mice, with perforin expression disrupted by an insertion at the exon 3 BstEII site. Experiment no. 2 was performed with mutant cells with perforin expression disrupted by an insertion at the exon 3Sph I site.