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Tumor necrosis factor sustains the generalized lymphoproliferative disorder (gld) phenotype
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Korner, H and Cretney, E and Wilhelm, P and Kelly, JM and Rollinghoff, M and Sedgwick, JD and Smyth, MJ, Tumor necrosis factor sustains the generalized lymphoproliferative disorder (gld) phenotype, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 191, (1) pp. 89-96. ISSN 0022-1007 (2000) [Refereed Article]
Abstract
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and Fas ligand (FasL) play major roles in the homeostasis of the peripheral immune system. This becomes dramatically obvious in the absence of a functional FasL. Mice with such a deficiency develop a profound lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, hypergammaglobulinemia, and strain-dependent systemic autoimmune disease, and succumb to premature death. It is consequently termed generalized lymphoproliferative disorder (gld). By contrast, TNF deficiency alone does not result in a striking phenotype. Thus, we sought to determine what role TNF might play in contributing to the gld phenotype by creating C57BL/6.gld. TNF(-/-) mice. Contrary to the expected outcome, mice deficient for both FasL and TNF had a substantially milder gld phenotype with regard to mortality, lymphoaccumulation, germinal center formation, and hypergammaglobulinemia. To confirm these data in a strain highly permissive for the phenotype, C3H/HeJ.gld and C3H.HeJ.lpr mice were treated with a TNF-specipic monoclonal antibody. This transient neutralization of TNF also resulted in a significantly attenuated lymphoproliferative phenotype. We conclude that TNF is necessary for the full manifestation of the lymphoproliferative disorder, in particular playing a critical role in lymphoaccumulation. Most importantly, absence of TNF protects gld mice against premature death.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
Research Group: | Immunology |
Research Field: | Immunology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Clinical health |
Objective Field: | Clinical health not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Korner, H (Professor Heinrich Korner) |
ID Code: | 72460 |
Year Published: | 2000 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 52 |
Deposited By: | Research Division |
Deposited On: | 2011-08-26 |
Last Modified: | 2011-08-29 |
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