Hammarström L, Smith CI. T-cell functions in nude mice: proliferation of spleen cells from athymic mice in the one-way xenogeneic mixed leucocyte reaction.
Scand J Immunol 1980;
12:213-21. [PMID:
6451025 DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-3083.1980.tb00061.x]
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Abstract
Spleen cells from nude mice proliferate in vitro when stimulated with xenogeneic (human) lymphoid cells rendered unresponsive by addition of digitalis glycosides. In digitalis-sensitive species, such as humans, DNA, RNA, carbohydrate, and protein synthesis is completely blocked by addition of low concentrations of glycoside, whereas no impairment is found in digitalis-resistant species such as mouse. Since T cells have been implicated to be the cells responding in the mixed leucocyte reaction, this finding may suggest the occasional existence of "T-like" cells in the spleens of nude mice.
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