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A species/strain comparison of hepatic natural lymphocytotoxic activities in rats and mice

Paul F.A. Wright and Neill H. Stacey

National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety, The University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia

The natural killer (NK) and natural cytotoxic (NC) cell activities in livers from certain rat and mouse strains were compared. This included the two rodent strains used in animal carcinogenicity bioassays, i.e. Fischer 344 and B6C3F1 mice. Sprague-Dawley and Fischer 344 rats exhibited high hepatic NK activity, which was greater than the levels seen in all of the five mouse strains studied. However, the hepatic NC activity in rats was comparable to the activities observed in C57BL and BALB/c mice. An inverse relationship was observed between the two tumoricidal activities in all but one of the mouse strains examined; that is (at 8 weeks of age), NK activity: C3H > B6C3F1 > CBA > BALB/c; NC activity: BALB/c > CBA > B6C3F1 > C3H. The C57BL mouse strain was the only strain to express both activities at comparatively high levels. Female mice exhibited a similar profile of cytotoxic activities. Rats also possessed high activities of a presently ill-defined tumoricidal activity, this being the spontaneous P815 mastocytoma killing by unstimulated effector cells, over an 18 h period. Both adherent and nonadherent effector cells from rat livers, but only the nonadherent cell population isolated from male mouse livers, exhibited this activity which may represent a distinct hepato-specific population of natural lymphocytotoxic effector cells. The tumoricidal activities in liver-derived cells were greater than those of effector cells isolated from the spleen. The differences in natural immunity reported in this study may be related to the varying background incidences of hepatic tumors, i.e. the mouse strains susceptible to high background incidences of liver tumors have relatively low natural immunity, whereas the two mouse strains resistant to hepatic tumors possess high levels of at least one hepatic NLC activity. Similarly, rats have relatively low hepatic tumor rates and high levels of hepatic natural immunity.


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