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Tgε{lunate}26 mice display an arrest very early in T cell development that has a profound effect on the architecture of thymic stromal cells. We have recently demonstrated that transplantation of wild-type bone marrow cells restores the thymic microenvironment of fetal but not adult Tgε{lunate}26 mice. Here, we report that T cell-reconstituted adult Tgε{lunate}26 mice develop a spontaneous wasting syndrome characterized by extensive Inflammation of the colon, resembling human ulcerative colitis. Colitis in these animals was marked by substantial Infiltration of the colon by activated thymus-derived CD4+ T cells. Importantly, bone marrow-transplanted Tgε{lunate}26 mice previously engrafted with a fetal Tgε{lunate}26 thymus did not develop colitis. These results suggest that T cells selected In an aberrant thymic microenviron-ment contain a population of cells able to Induce severe colitis that can be prevented by T cells that have undergone normal thymic development. © 1995.

Original publication

DOI

10.1016/1074-7613(95)90156-6

Type

Journal article

Journal

Immunity

Publication Date

01/01/1995

Volume

3

Pages

27 - 38