Mice rendered deficient in the production of interleukin 10 (IL-10-/-) develop a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that predominates in the colon and shares histopathological features with human IBD. Our aim was to identify which cell type(s) can mediate colitis in IL-10-/- mice. We detected an influx of immunoglobulin-positive cells into the colon and the presence of colon-reactive antibodies in the serum of IL-10-/- mice. To assess a pathogenic role for B cells, we generated a B cell-deficient (B-/-) strain of IL-10-/- mice. B-/-IL-10-/- mice acquired a severe colitis analogous to that IL-10-/- mice, implying that B cells were not the primary mediator of IBD in this model. A series of cell transfer experiments was performed to assess a pathogenic role for T cells. When IL-10-/- T cell-enriched lamina propria lymphocytes (LPL) or intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) were transferred into immunodeficient recombinase-activating gene (RAG)-2-/- recipients, a mild to severe colitis developed, depending on the cell number transferred. Lymphocytes recovered from the colon of transplanted RAG-2-/- mice with colitis were predominantly alpha beta TCR+CD4+, including a large proportion of CD4+CD8 alpha + cells. These cells were also CD45RB-/low and CD44+, indicative of an activated/memory population. Individual populations of CD4+CD8 alpha-, CD4+CD8 alpha + and CD4-CD8 alpha + T cells were then isolated from the lamina propria compartment of IL-10-/- mice and transferred into RAG-2-/- recipients. Only IL-10-/- CD4-expressing LPL, including both the CD4+CD8 alpha- and CD4+CD8 alpha + populations, induced colitis in recipient mice. Interferon-gamma, but little to no IL-4, was produced by CD4+CD8 alpha- and CD4+CD8 alpha + LPL recovered from the inflamed colons of RAG-2-/- recipients implicating alpha T helper cell 1 (TH1)-mediated response. We thus conclude that colitis in IL-10-/- mice is predominantly mediated by TH1-type alpha beta TCR+ T cells expressing CD4 alone, or in combination with the CD8 alpha molecule.
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July 01 1996
T helper cell 1-type CD4+ T cells, but not B cells, mediate colitis in interleukin 10-deficient mice.
N J Davidson,
N J Davidson
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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M W Leach,
M W Leach
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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M M Fort,
M M Fort
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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L Thompson-Snipes,
L Thompson-Snipes
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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R Kühn,
R Kühn
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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W Müller,
W Müller
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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D J Berg,
D J Berg
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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D M Rennick
D M Rennick
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
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N J Davidson
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
M W Leach
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
M M Fort
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
L Thompson-Snipes
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
R Kühn
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
W Müller
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
D J Berg
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
D M Rennick
DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1996) 184 (1): 241–251.
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N J Davidson, M W Leach, M M Fort, L Thompson-Snipes, R Kühn, W Müller, D J Berg, D M Rennick; T helper cell 1-type CD4+ T cells, but not B cells, mediate colitis in interleukin 10-deficient mice.. J Exp Med 1 July 1996; 184 (1): 241–251. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.184.1.241
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