Abstract
Gastric administration of human gamma-globulin (HGG) into adult A/J mice leads to the establishment of an antigen-specific unresponsive state to subsequent parenteral challenge with HGG. An unresponsive state is induced in both helper T and B lymphocyte populations. Unresponsiveness in helper T cells is of longer duration than in B cells, lasting at least 9 wk after intragastric intubation. Adoptive cell transfer of spleen cells from gastrically inoculated mice into healthy irradiated, syngeneic recipients revealed that the unresponsive state is stable upon cell transfer and that suppressor cells are present in the spleens of gastrically tolerized mice. The establishment of HGG-specific unresponsiveness is dependent upon both the dose and the form of the antigen adminstered. Soluble and deaggregated HGG are both more efficient than is heat-aggregated HGG in inducing unresponsiveness gastrically. The administered HGG is rapidly eliminated from the animal and only a small fraction reaches the circulation as immunoreactive protein. Although the cellular parameters of the systemic unresponsiveness induced by intragastric intubation with HGG appear similar to the parameters of parenterally induced unresponsiveness, the precise mechanisms by which gastric unresponsive states are established remain to be resolved.
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