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During the past several years the regulation of the immune response, particularly regarding suppressor cell activity, has met with considerable interest, and a number of different suppressor cell systems, some specific, others nonspecific, have been described (Reviewed in 1,2). For the study of suppressor cell function in man, two test systems were mainly used: the measure of T cell controlled in vitro proliferation, differentiation, and immunoglobulin production of human B lymphocytes following polyclonal activation with pokeweed mitogen [PWM] and the investigation of the ability of in vitro concanavalin A [Con A] — activated lymphocytes to suppress proliferation responses of autologous or allogeneic responder cells (3,4).
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Knapp, W. et al. (1981). Con A Induced Suppressor Cell Activity in IBD and Other Inflammatory Diseases. In: Peña, A.S., Weterman, I.T., Booth, C.C., Strober, W. (eds) Recent Advances in Crohn’s Disease. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8273-4_84
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