Influence of Surgical Stress on Cellular Immunity and the Induction of Plastic Adherent Suppressor Cells of Spleen in Mice
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Immunological Investigations
- Vol. 15 (5), 419-430
- https://doi.org/10.3109/08820138609054913
Abstract
Surgical stress animal models were established by performing laparotomies on mice. It was found that this type of stress could suppress the natural killer (NK) cytotoxicity and the proliferation of spleen cells induced by conA or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Dynamic changes showed that the stress-mediated immunosuppression was reversible, as the responses to conA and LPS would be restored with time. The sensitivity to the stress-mediated suppression was different according to variations in immunological parameters. Furthermore, the macrophages in spleen were tested by isolation by the plastic-adherent procedure. The results showed clearly that these adherent cells (Plastic Adherent Cells, PAC) possessed an immunosuppressive effect on mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation in post-operative mice, but not in normal mice. Treatment of mice with indomethacin blocked the PAC-mediated immunosuppression. Surgical stress appeared to increase the level of prostaglandins, which in turn induced the production of suppressor PAC.Keywords
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