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Enhancement of the antibody response to type 3 pneumococcal polysaccharide in mice treated with antilymphocyte serum.

Phillip J. Baker, +3 more
- 01 May 1970 - 
- Vol. 104, Iss: 5, pp 1313-1315
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This article showed that mice treated with antilymphocyte serum (ALS) and immunized with type III pneumococcal polysaccharide (SSS-III) showed a tenfold increase in the number of direct splenic plaque-forming cells (PFC); no indirect PFC were detected in such mice.
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Summary Mice treated with antilymphocyte serum (ALS) and immunized with type III pneumococcal polysaccharide (SSS-III) showed a tenfold increase in the number of direct splenic plaque-forming cells (PFC); no indirect PFC were detected in such mice. These findings suggest that ALS may have selectively eliminated a population of cells which exerts a regulatory effect on the antibody response to SSS-III.

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