Abstract
Spleen cells from B6C3F1 hybrid mice pretreated i.v. with 5 X 10(7) C3H spleen cells seven days earlier (C3H-pretreated B6C3F1) suppress the in vitro B6 anti-B6C3F1 proliferative and cytotoxic responses, when they are added to cultures of B6 responding and B6C3F1 stimulating spleen cells. This suppression is mediated by a Thy-1+Lyt-1+2+ cell of C3H origin that is radiosensitive at 2000 rads. This suppressor cell is not induced by the injection to B6C3F1 hybrids of spleen cells from the other parent strain (B6) or an allogeneic strain (D2). It does not suppress either the response of the other parent (C3H) or an allogeneic strain (D2) to B6C3F1 antigens, or the response of B6 cells to an allogeneic strain (D2). Its induction depends upon the number and the subpopulation of C3H spleen cells injected since suppression is observed after the injection of more than 2.5 X 10(7) C3H cells, and the suppression inducing cells have the phenotype Thy-1+Lyt-1+2+. This phenomenon is not limited to the C3H-B6C3F1 genetic combination, since it has been observed in all parent hybrid combinations tested to date.
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