Tissue-specific migration pathways by phenotypically distinct subpopulations of memory T cells

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Title
Tissue-specific migration pathways by phenotypically distinct subpopulations of memory T cells
Journal
European Journal of Immunology
Author(s)
Mackay  C. R., Marston  W. L., Dudler  L., Spertini  O., Tedder  T. F., Hein  W. R.
ISSN
0014-2980 (Print)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/1992
Volume
22
Number
4
Pages
887-895
Language
english
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Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't --- Old month value: Apr
Abstract
A proportion of T cells recirculate in a tissue-selective manner. Recent studies which showed that the skin-tropic subset of T cells was of memory/activated type, led us to examine whether the preferential homing of T cells to the gut also involved memory T cells, and if so whether these memory T cells were phenotypically distinct from other memory T cells. Lymphocytes migrating through the gut and the skin of sheep was collected by cannulating the lymphatic ducts draining these tissues. Both naive and memory T cells were found to recirculate through the gut, although only memory T cells migrated through the skin. However, when T cells from the gut were labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate and assessed for their migration back to the gut, it was the memory population which showed a tropism for the gut. Gut-tropic memory T cells migrated poorly through the skin, indicating that these cells were distinct from skin-tropic memory T cells. This was confirmed by phenotypic analysis. Gut memory T cells expressed very low levels of the alpha 6 and beta 1 integrins, in contrast to skin memory T cells which expressed high levels. There was no evidence for heterogeneity within the naive T cell population, which migrated preferentially to lymph nodes. This migration pattern could be explained in part by the high expression of the L-selectin (lymph node homing receptor, LAM-1) on naive T cells, in contrast to memory T cells from gut or skin which were mostly L-selectin negative. These results in sheep indicate that subsets of alpha/beta memory T cells show tissue-selective migration patterns, which probably develop in a particular environment following encounter with antigen.
Keywords
Animals Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology Cell Adhesion Cell Adhesion Molecules/*physiology Cell Movement Endothelium, Vascular/physiology *Immunologic Memory Integrins/*physiology Intestines/immunology L-Selectin Lymph Nodes/immunology Peyer's Patches/immunology Receptors, Lymphocyte Homing/physiology Sheep Skin/immunology T-Lymphocyte Subsets/*physiology
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