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The specificity and intensity of the immune response of rat lymph nodes draining a skin allograft were examined by exploiting a monolayer of donor-type thoracic duct lymphocytes as an immunoabsorbent. Stable monolayers were produced by attaching lymphocytes from different strains of rat to Petri dishes pretreated with poly-L-lysine. The responding lymph node cells were labelled in vitro with [3H]Thymidine, incubated on the monolayer and mechanically separated into non-adherent and adherent fractions. The radioactivity associated with the adherent fraction was 7--8 times greater when the monolayer displayed the immunizing major histocompatibility antigens than when syngeneic or 'third party' monolayers were used. The non-specific adherence to syngeneic monolayers was low and consistent. Immunization to minor histocompatibility antigens may also be studied by this method.
The specificity and intensity of the immune response of rat lymph nodes draining a skin allograft were examined by exploiting a monolayer of donor-type thoracic duct lymphocytes as an immunoabsorbent. Stable monolayers were produced by attaching lymphocytes from different strains of rat to Petri dishes pretreated with poly-L-lysine. The responding lymph node cells were labelled in vitro with [3H]Thymidine, incubated on the monolayer and mechanically separated into non-adherent and adherent fractions. The radioactivity associated with the adherent fraction was 7--8 times greater when the monolayer displayed the immunizing major histocompatibility antigens than when syngeneic or 'third party' monolayers were used. The non-specific adherence to syngeneic monolayers was low and consistent. Immunization to minor histocompatibility antigens may also be studied by this method.