Abstract
An in vitro culture system was employed to ascertain the effects of different temperatures on the anti-hapten antibody-secreting cell responses of channel catfish leucocytes to murine thymus-dependent (TD) and thymus-independent (TI) antigens. The magnitudes of primary responses to a TI antigen (TNP-LPS) and secondary responses to a TD antigen (DNP-KLH) were relatively independent of in vitro culture temperature. The kinetics of each of these responses as a function of temperature was characterized by a Q10 of 2. In contrast, the magnitudes of primary responses to TD antigens (DNP-KLH and DNP-HoSA) were suppressed at lower in vitro temperatures. Furthermore, it was observed that some of the low temperature suppression of primary responses to TD antigens could be abrogated by appropriate low temperature in vivo acclimation. These findings are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that low environmental temperatures immunosuppress fish by virtue of differential inhibitory effects on the generation of carrier-specific helper cells.
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