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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 138, Issue 3 752-759, Copyright © 1987 by American Association of Immunologists

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Distribution of histopathology and Ia positive cells in actively induced and passively transferred experimental autoimmune orchitis

KS Tung, TD Yule, CA Mahi-Brown and MB Listrom

Histopathology in testes from mice with actively induced experimental orchitis (EAO) (active EAO) and those from recipients of testis- sensitized lymphocytes (passive EAO) had different distributions. In passive EAO, maximum orchitis existed in the straight tubules, rete testis, and ductus efferentes, obstruction of which led to extreme dilatation of seminiferous tubules. Unusual intralymphatic granulomata also resulted in dilated testicular lymphatics. In active EAO, maximum orchitis affected seminiferous tubules under the testicular capsule, away from the rete testes. Vasitis was common and occurred in both active and passive EAO. In normal testes, IA+ F4/80+ cells were sparse but formed a cuff around the straight tubules. After immunization with testis in adjuvant or with adjuvant alone, the number, size, and staining intensity of IA+ cells increased dramatically beginning on day 5, 7 days before disease onset. Simultaneously, epithelial cells confined to the ductus efferentes became Ia+. Although recipients of sensitized lymphocytes also developed epithelial Ia in the ductus efferentes, they did not show changes in testicular interstitial Ia+ cells. Our findings indicate that testicular autoantigens are not completely sequestered, but are accessible to and can react with passively transferred immune lymphocytes in well-defined regions of the germ cell compartment. These regions coincided to a large extent with maximum expression of periductal or epithelial Ia. Changes in Ia+ cells in the testis, which are inducible by adjuvants and precede orchitis, may account in part for the different distribution of histopathology of active EAO.


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