Lines of rat T lymphocytes responsive to the basic protein of myelin (BP) or to the purified protein derivative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (PPD) were inoculated i.v. into recipient rats. As reported previously, the anti-BP line cells, but not the anti-PPD line cells spontaneously accumulated in the central nervous system and caused encephalomyelitis. However, the anti-PPD line cells could be induced to enter the brain and cause bystander encephalitis by intracerebral inoculation of PPD. Anti-PPD or anti-BP line cells could mediate delayed-type hypersensitivity skin reactions or bystander arthritis elicited by specific antigen. The lines did not cause specific cytolysis in vitro. Susceptibility to delayed-type hypersensitivity or bystander disease was long lasting in rats inoculated with anti-PPD line cells, while rats inoculated with anti-BP line cells were susceptible for only a few days. Thus, lines of T lymphocytes can mediate a variety of pathological reactions directed by the presence of specific antigen, self or foreign.
A series of tert-butyl substituted zirconocene/methylaluminoxane catalysts illustrates the potential for the tailoring of olefin oligomers with extremely narrow molar mass distributions, which are explained on the basis of a chain-length dependent propagation rate.Comparative oligomerization experiments provide a means to estimate the relative rates for chain propagation versus chain transfer as well as a correlation with the metallocene structure.
P2X7 receptors have been suggested to be located both on neurons and astrocytes of the central and peripheral nervous systems. In the present Ca(2+)-imaging and patch-clamp study, we reinvestigated these findings on mixed neuronal-astrocytic cell cultures prepared from embryonic or newborn rat hippocampi. We found in a Mg(2+)-free bath medium that the prototypic P2X7 receptor agonist dibenzoyl-adenosine triphosphate (Bz-ATP) increased the intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)]i) both in the neuronal cell bodies and in their axo-dendritic processes only to a very minor extent. However, Bz-ATP produced marked [Ca(2+)]i transients in the neuronal processes, when they grew above a glial carpet, which was uniformly sensitive to Bz-ATP. These glial signals might be misinterpreted as neuronal responses because of the poor focal discrimination by a fluorescent microscope. Most astrocytes had a polygonal shape without clearly circumscribable boundaries, but a subgroup of them had neuron-like appearance. The cellular processes of this astrocytic subgroup, just as their cell somata and their polygonal counterparts, appeared to possess a high density of functional P2X7 receptors. In contrast to astrocytes, in a low Ca(2+)/no Mg(2+)-containing bath medium, hippocampal neurons failed to respond to Bz-ATP with membrane currents. In addition, neither the amplitude nor the frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents, representing the quantal release of glutamate, was modified by Bz-ATP. We conclude that cultured hippocampal neurons, in contrast to astrocytes, possess P2X7 receptors, if at all, only at a low density.
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