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1Department of Immunology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London.
When purified anti-immunoglobulin light chain antibodies were used in indirect immunofluorescence or labeled with 125I for autoradiographic staining, a similar percentage of Ig-bearing lymphocytes were detected by both techniques in lymphoid cell suspensions from the thymus or blood of 8-14-week-old chickens. However, a larger proportion of Ig positive lymphocytes were detected in suspensions of bursal cells by the more sensitive autoradiographic method, suggesting a lower surface density of Ig: perhaps on newly differentiated stem cells. In thymus and spleen suspensions, the proportions of Ig positive lymphocytes carrying mu and gamma-chains were roughly equal, whereas in the B cell populations of the bursa and blood, cells carrying surface gamma-chains predominated. IgA-bearing lymphocytes were only a minor population (< 5%) in lymphocyte suspensions prepared from the thymus, bursa, blood and spleen of adult chickens, but formed almost 50% of the Ig-bearing lymphocytes in the caecal tonsils.
When purified anti-immunoglobulin light chain antibodies were used in indirect immunofluorescence or labeled with 125I for autoradiographic staining, a similar percentage of Ig-bearing lymphocytes were detected by both techniques in lymphoid cell suspensions from the thymus or blood of 8-14-week-old chickens. However, a larger proportion of Ig positive lymphocytes were detected in suspensions of bursal cells by the more sensitive autoradiographic method, suggesting a lower surface density of Ig: perhaps on newly differentiated stem cells. In thymus and spleen suspensions, the proportions of Ig positive lymphocytes carrying mu and gamma-chains were roughly equal, whereas in the B cell populations of the bursa and blood, cells carrying surface gamma-chains predominated. IgA-bearing lymphocytes were only a minor population (< 5%) in lymphocyte suspensions prepared from the thymus, bursa, blood and spleen of adult chickens, but formed almost 50% of the Ig-bearing lymphocytes in the caecal tonsils.
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