hematopoietic system
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• normal populations of mononuclear cells expressing the B cell lineage surface markers CD19 and B220/CD45R
• normal populations of double negative (DN: CD4- CD8-), single positive (SP: CD4+ CD8- and CD4- CD8+) and double positive (DP: CD4+ CD8+) T cells
• normal populations of monocytic (CD11b+ GR-) and of granulocytic (CD11b+ GR+ cells
• normal frequencies of common myeloid progenitors (CMP) and of common lymphoid progenitors (CLP) in bone marrow
• total bone marrow cells of mutant and of wild-type mice cultured for 10-14 days in a CFU-mix cytokine cocktail yield similar numbers of CFU-mix colonies
• Th1 and Th2 T cells differentiated in vitro from wild-type and mutant CD4+ T cells secrete similar amounts of Th1 (IL-2, IFN-gamma) and Th2 (IL-4, IL-10) cytokines, respectively
• similar proliferation is observed in lymph node (LN) cells from mutant and from wild-type mice immunized with TNP-ovalbumin/incomplete Freund's adjuvant (TNP-OVA/IFA) and restimulated in vitro
• LN cells from mutant mice immunized with TNP-OVA/IFA and restimulated in vitro secrete IL-10 and IL-4 at nearly identical, low levels, as do wild-type cells
• in vitro restimulated spleen cells from TNP-OVA/IFA immunized mutant and wild-type mice secrete similar amounts of IL-12
• IL-12 levels are similar in sera and in lymph nodes of TNP-OVA/IFA immunized mutant and wild-type mice
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• total bone marrow cells of mutant mice cultured for 10-12 days in the presence of IL-7 yield ~4-fold as many pre-B cell colonies as did BM cells from wild-type mice
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• homozygous mutant mice have approximately 2.2-fold as many SPKLS (side population KIT+ LIN- LY6A/SCA-1+) cells, a primitive hematopoietic stem cell population, as do wild-type mice
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• LN cells from mutant mice stimulated with TNP-OVA/IFA secrete slightly more IL-2 than do wild-type cells
• LN and spleen cells from mutant mice stimulated with TNP-OVA/IFA secrete significantly less IFN-gamma than do wild-type cells
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