Cellular and humoral aspects of the immune response develop sequentially in the fetus. During the ontogeny, the pluripotent stem cells emerge and differentiate into all hematopoietic lineages. Basic questions including the identification of the first lympho-hematopoietic sites, the origin of T and B lymphocytes, the development of different subpopulations of alphabeta T, gammadelta T and B lymphocytes as well as development of innate immunity and the acquisition of full immunological capacities are discussed here for swine and compared with other species. The description of related topics such as fertilization, morphogenesis, maternal-fetal-neonatal physiology and early neonatal development are also discussed.

• MeSH
• B-lymfocyty cytologie   imunologie   metabolismus   MeSH
• buněčná imunita MeSH
• embryo savčí imunologie   MeSH
• hematopoetické kmenové buňky cytologie   imunologie   MeSH
• hematopoéza imunologie   MeSH
• imunitní systém embryologie   imunologie   MeSH
• lymfopoéza MeSH
• maternofetální výměna látek imunologie   MeSH
• morfogeneze imunologie   MeSH
• placentace imunologie   MeSH
• prasata embryologie   imunologie   virologie   MeSH
• přirozená imunita MeSH
• T-lymfocyty cytologie   imunologie   metabolismus   MeSH
• těhotenství MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• těhotenství MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• přehledy MeSH

Remarkable interspecies differences in CD2 expression on B lymphocytes have been reported in mammals. Human and rat B cells lack CD2, whilst B lymphocytes in mice are CD2+. In pigs, B cells have been supposed not to express CD2. We show here, however, that CD2 is present at a low level on a prominent subset of porcine B cells. Moreover, we describe changes in the proportions of CD2+ and CD2- B-cell subsets during ontogeny. Before contact with microflora, the majority of peripheral surface immunoglobulin M+ (sIgM+) B cells express CD2 and sIgM+CD2- B cells are rare. Shortly after colonization of conventional (CV) piglets with complex intestinal microflora, numerous CD2- B cells appear in the periphery and their relative number increases with age in both CV and specific pathogen-free (SPF) pigs. However, monoassociation of germ-free (GF) piglets with a single Escherichia coli strain does not result in a significant increase of sIgM+CD2- B cells in the periphery. We suggest that CD2 is down-regulated in porcine B lymphocytes upon activation with microflora in mucosa-associated lymphatic tissues. In bone marrow (BM), we identified putative porcine B-cell precursors. These cells express CD2 at low density and do not bear either the common myelomonocytic antigen or T and B-lymphocyte receptors. Similar to mouse and human pre-B cells, this lymphocyte-sized subset expresses CD25 and class II antigens. CD2 positivity of these cells indicates that CD2 is expressed earlier than sIgM during B lymphopoiesis in pigs.

• MeSH
• antigeny CD2 metabolismus   MeSH
• buněčná diferenciace imunologie   MeSH
• diferenciační antigeny metabolismus   MeSH
• gnotobiologické modely MeSH
• imunofenotypizace MeSH
• infekce vyvolané Escherichia coli imunologie   MeSH
• kostní dřeň imunologie   MeSH
• leukocyty mononukleární imunologie   MeSH
• podskupiny B-lymfocytů imunologie   MeSH
• prasata imunologie   MeSH
• průtoková cytometrie MeSH
• stárnutí imunologie   MeSH
• střeva mikrobiologie   MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• antigeny CD2 MeSH
• diferenciační antigeny MeSH

Pig fetuses, colostrum-deprived newborns and germ-free (GF) piglets, animals in which B-cell development is not influenced by maternal regulatory factors, were employed to study the occurrence and specificity of natural antibodies (NAb). Serum immunoglobulins of all isotypes were found in 44-day-old fetuses (the gestation period in pigs lasts 114 days) and their level, with predominating IgM, was increased during fetal ontogeny. In sera of fetuses at the end of embryonic life as well as of newborns and older GF piglets, antibody activity against autoantigens (thyroglobulin, hormones, ssDNA), phylogenetically conserved proteins (myosin), haptens (trinitrophenyl; TNP) and bacterial components (Escherichia coli O86, tetanic anatoxin) was detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The antigen-biding activity of IgM NAb increased after isolation of the serum immunoglobulins on a Staphylococcus Protein A (SPA)-Sepharose column. IgM reactivity similar to that detected in serum was found in supernatants from polyclonally stimulated cultures of spleen of 8- and 12-day-old GF piglets. Pig fetal liver IgM+ B cells, which were able to produce IgM after polyclonal stimulation, did not express the CD5 molecule. Our results indicate that pig preimmune repertoire is comparable to that described in humans and mice, although in contrast to these species pig B-1 cells do not express CD5.

• MeSH
• antigeny CD5 analýza   MeSH
• B-lymfocyty imunologie   MeSH
• buněčné kultury MeSH
• gnotobiologické modely MeSH
• imunoglobulin M biosyntéza   MeSH
• imunoglobulinové izotypy krev   MeSH
• imunoglobuliny biosyntéza   MeSH
• játra embryologie   imunologie   MeSH
• novorozená zvířata MeSH
• plod imunologie   MeSH
• prasata imunologie   MeSH
• specificita protilátek MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• antigeny CD5 MeSH
• imunoglobulin M MeSH
• imunoglobulinové izotypy MeSH
• imunoglobuliny MeSH

Immunoglobulin (Ig) response to different polyclonal B-cell activators was measured by ELISA in cell culture media of thymocytes, splenocytes and liver cells isolated from pig fetuses, 8-d-old germ-free piglets and conventionally reared pigs. Both in fetal and in postnatal life polyclonally stimulated lymphocytes were found to produce predominantly the IgM isotype; the first IgM formation was detected in 50-d-old fetal liver (gestation in pigs lasts 114 d). Surprisingly, 73-d-old fetal thymic cells were shown to be induced to Ig synthesis and secretion. In contrast to splenocytes of the same age, which secreted exclusively IgM, fetal thymocytes produced IgM, IgG and IgA. Polyclonally stimulated splenic cells as compared with thymic cells started to produce IgA later in fetal ontogeny, whereas the IgG response was not detectable in splenic cell culture media during the whole embryonal development and appeared only after birth. The earliest and the highest Ig stimulation was found after cultivation of lymphocytes with Nocardia delipidated cell mitogen. Interestingly, the moderate stimulatory effect of 65-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp-65) in polyclonal IgM response of fetal splenocytes was observed. We showed that thymic B lymphocytes represent probably the first maturing B cell population detectable in fetal life, which is able to differentiate after polyclonal stimulation into IgM as well as IgA and IgG producing cells.

• MeSH
• aktivace lymfocytů * MeSH
• B-lymfocyty účinky léků   imunologie   MeSH
• bakteriální proteiny * MeSH
• chaperon hsp60 MeSH
• chaperoniny imunologie   MeSH
• ELISA MeSH
• gnotobiologické modely imunologie   MeSH
• játra cytologie   embryologie   růst a vývoj   imunologie   MeSH
• lipopolysacharidy imunologie   MeSH
• mitogeny líčidla amerického imunologie   MeSH
• mitogeny imunologie   MeSH
• organické látky MeSH
• orgánové kultury - kultivační techniky MeSH
• plod imunologie   MeSH
• prasata embryologie   růst a vývoj   imunologie   MeSH
• slezina cytologie   imunologie   MeSH
• thymus cytologie   embryologie   růst a vývoj   imunologie   MeSH
• tvorba protilátek * MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• bakteriální proteiny * MeSH
• chaperon hsp60 MeSH
• chaperoniny MeSH
• heat-shock protein 65, Mycobacterium MeSH Prohlížeč
• lipopolysacharidy MeSH
• mitogeny líčidla amerického MeSH
• mitogeny MeSH
• Nocardia delipidated cell mitogen MeSH Prohlížeč
• organické látky MeSH