Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Huang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3552125 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20121228 3
We re-examined the observation that γδ T cells, when transferred from mice tolerized to an inhaled conventional Ag, suppress the allergic IgE response to this Ag specifically. Using OVA and hen egg lysozyme in crisscross fashion, we confirmed the Ag-specific IgE-regulatory effect of the γδ T cells. Although only Vγ4(+) γδ T cells are regulators, the Ag specificity does not stem from specificity of their γδ TCRs. Instead, the Vγ4(+) γδ T cells failed to respond to either Ag, but rapidly acquired ...[more]