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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 136, 1375-1382, Copyright © 1990 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Hybridomas using athymic nude mouse injected with Crohn's disease (CD) tissue filtrate. Immunoreactivity of the hybridomas with CD sera

KM Das, M Vecchi, A Novikoff, S Mazumdar and PM Novikoff
Department of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick 08903.

Injections of Crohn's disease (CD) tissue filtrates produce lymphoma and hyperplastic lymph nodes from plasma cell hyperplasia (PCH) in athymic nude (nu/nu) mice; these lymphoid tissue contain an antigen(s) recognized by CD serum/gamma G immunoglobulin (IgG). To immortalize the "CD-reactive antigen(s)," the authors fused the lymphoid cells from a CD tissue filtrate primed nu/nu mouse with nonsecretory mouse myeloma cells. Hybrids were screened and selected based on their reactivity with CD serum IgG, but not with control serum IgG in an indirect immunofluorescence assay (IF). Two CD-positive hybridomas were examined by IF with sera from 47 CD, 38 ulcerative colitis (UC), 13 controls with other gastrointestinal diseases, 19 with autoimmune diseases, and 21 normal subjects. Sera from 16 CD patients (34%) reacted with the two hybridomas, but only one of 38 UC sera and none of the 53 other disease or normal control sera reacted. The immunoreactivity of CD sera was significantly higher than UC sera (P less than 0.01) and each of the other groups (P less than 0.007). Using immunoperoxidase techniques at light and electron microscopic levels, the authors localized CD- associated antigen(s) in the plasma membrane of the two hybridomas. Further characterization of these hybridomas and the immunoreactive protein(s) may provide an important probe(s) for the diagnosis and the understanding of the pathogenesis of CD.




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