Abstract
This study reports experiments with thymic stromal remnants in AKR mice, a strain with a high natural incidence of thymic lymphoma. A method has been developed in which thymic stromal cells which survive a 4-week culture period, 1 week at 24°C and 3 weeks at 37°C are suitable for grafting. Most thymic lymphocytes die under these conditions. Stromal remnants were studied by culturing and grafting under the kidney capsule of 2-month-old syngeneic mice. Their in vitro morphology and virus production, their ability to reconstitute a new thymus from host progenitors and their eventual lymphoma development was evaluated. The stromal remnants were from: 1- and 3-month-old normal mice; 6–10-month-old normal mice; 21–28-day-old animals treated with the lymphomagenic virus, SL3-3, at 3 days of age. Our data show that thymic stromal function as measured by lymphoid reconstitution of thymic stromal grafts of AKR mice is not impaired with age or by the presence of ocongenic virus. Oncogenic viruses are found in the thymic stroma of old mice and in thymic stroma of young virus-treated mice. Oncogenic viruses are not found in thymic stroma of young normal mice. Lymphoma can develop in the grafted stromal remnants expressing lymphomagenic virus.
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