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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 144, Issue 4 1169-1176, Copyright © 1990 by American Association of Immunologists

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Impairment of prothymocyte activity by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p- dioxin

JS Fine, AE Silverstone and TA Gasiewicz
Department of Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY 14642.

Exposure of experimental animals to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) results in severe thymic atrophy and suppression of cell- mediated and humoral immune functions. However, despite much effort the mechanism by which TCDD produces these responses, particularly thymic atrophy, remains unclear. In this report, we have examined the effect of acute TCDD exposure on lymphocyte stem cells in young adult BALB/c mice to determine whether alterations to events early in T lymphopoiesis contribute to TCDD-induced thymic atrophy. TCDD produced a dose-dependent reduction in thymic weight and cellularity following a single dose of 5 to 120 micrograms TCDD/kg. This thymic atrophy correlated with a dose-dependent suppression of the biosynthesis and mRNA levels of the lymphocyte stem cell-specific DNA polymerase terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase in bone marrow and thymus. However, the reduction in thymic terminal deoxynucleotidyl nucleotidyl transferase synthesis, on a per cell basis, was less than that observed in bone marrow. Intrathymic CD4/CD8 and IL-2R expression demonstrated only mild alterations after exposure to 30 micrograms TCDD/kg. These data suggest that thymocytes are more refractory to TCDD than are pre-T cells. To assess this possibility directly, bone marrow prothymocytes from TCDD-treated donor mice were examined for their capacity to reconstitute the thymuses of adoptive, irradiated recipients. Our results indicate that prothymocyte activity was severely impaired by TCDD exposure and that this effect occurred at low tissue levels of TCDD. In contrast, we observed no reduction in the number of colony- forming unit-granulocyte macrophage and a moderate decrease in colony- forming unit-spleen. These data suggest that TCDD-induced thymic atrophy is the result, at least in part, of impaired thymic seeding by prothymocytes.


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