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(Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 2004;76:553-561.)
© 2004 by Society for Leukocyte Biology

Enrichment for a CD26^hi SIRP^– subset in lymph dendritic cells from the upper aero-digestive tract

Mathieu Epardaud^*, Michel Bonneau, Fabrice Payot^*, Corinne Cordier, Jérôme Mégret, Chris Howard and Isabelle Schwartz-Cornil^*,1

^* Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires UR892 INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, Cedex, France;
Centre de Recherche en Imagerie Interventionnelle, Jouy-en-Josas, Cedex, France;
INSERM IFR94, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France; and
Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Newbury, Berks, United Kingdom

¹ Correspondence: VIM UR892 INRA, Domaine de Vilvert 78352 Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, France. E-mail: schwartz{at}jouy.inra.fr

Dendritic cells (DC) have been reported to migrate in afferent lymph in the steady state. However, it is unknown whether DC traffic is modulated by the nature of the drained tissue. To analyze the influence of mucosal versus cutaneous microenvironments on the constitutive DC release, we exploited a novel technique of lymph cannulation in sheep, which allowed a comparison of afferent lymph DC migrating from the head mucosae [cervical DC (CerDC)] with DC migrating from skin [prescapular DC (PresDC)]. The migration rate was lower for CerDC than for PresDC. Compared with PresDC, CerDC contained a higher proportion of the CD26^hi signal regulatory protein (SIRP)^– DC subset. It is interesting that cytoplasmic apoptotic DNA as well as cytokeratin-positive inclusions were primarily detected among CD26^hi SIRP^– DC, an observation similar to that made in rats, which leads to the suggestion that this subset was involved in self-antigen presentation and tolerance induction. After the inoculation of cholera toxin (CT) onto the oro-nasal mucosae, migration of CD26^hi SIRP^– and CD26^lo SIRP⁺ DC was accelerated in lymph, indicating that the effect of CT on DC mobilization is not subset-specific. Our results show that a mucosal environment influences DC output and the relative DC subset representation in lymph. This modulation of DC traffic to lymph nodes by mucosal surfaces is likely to affect the bias of the mucosal immune responses.

Key Words: cell trafficking • mucosa • tolerance • sheep

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