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Reduction of intestinal carcinogen absorption by carcinogen-specific secretory immunity
1University of Michigan, Pathology Department, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 17, 1989
Abstract:
A secretory immune response to the carcinogen 2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF) was elicited in rabbits by directly immunizing the small intestine with an AAF-cholera toxin conjugate. High-titer, high-affinity secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody to AAF was secreted into the intestinal lumen in response to this immunogen. Immune secretions reduced the transepithelial absorption of a 125I-labeled derivative of AAF by more than half. This reduction of absorption by hapten-specific IgA suggests that oral vaccines against carcinogens and toxicants could be developed for humans.