Abstract
Non-immune non-activated murine peritoneal macrophages killed in vitro fish (Cyprinus carpio) PHA-induced lymphoblasts. Addition of PHA and WGA to effector-target cell cultures did not potentiate the killing. This killing (xenolysis) was expressed by non-elicited and thioglycollate-elicited macrophages as well as by macrophages depleted of lymphocytes. It is suggested that mammalian macrophages have a xenolytic potential towards phylogenetically distant species which is analogous to the capacity of invertebrate phagocytes to destroy xenografts.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 569-578 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Topics in Catalysis |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 1982 |