Re: Wich cells are il-4 producers????

From: Samuel Lundin (samuel.lundin@microbio.gu.se)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 04:35:45 EST


At 09:14 2000-02-11 -0200, Zilton Farias Meira de Vasconcelos wrote:
>
>Dears,
>
>Anybody knows about cells in the lymnphoid-gate that are CD4- and CD8- and
>IL-4+ 
>This is spleen cells of a balb/c with leishmania????
>
>And the cytometry reveals these cells????
>
>Thank's
>

They might be NK-T cells, I presume. A large part of the T cells with NK
receptors are CD4 and CD8 negative, and prone to IL-4 production.
Have you checked that?

Best regards,

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Samuel Lundin, PhD
Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology,
Göteborg University
Guldhedsgatan 10A, 413 46 Göteborg, Sweden
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