Mesenteric nodes

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Kill immune animals by cervical dislocation or C02 inhalation, test bleed, and open abdominal cavity. Remove spleens or mesenteric nodes by blunt dissection. 

Count viable lymphoid cells in a hemocytometer. Spleens from immune mice yield about 108 cells, from rats 3-5 x 108 cells, and the mesenteric nodes of rats up to 2 x 108 cells. 

The mesenteric lymph node and typically the mandibular lymph node are collected in most short-term and chronic toxicity studies. Both nodes tend to be highly reactive because they drain mucosal surfaces that frequently encounter microbes introduced via the oral cavity. Because the mesenteric node drains the gastrointestinal tract, this node is viewed as an indicator of direct, as well as systemic, toxicity in cases of oral dosing of compound. A practical issue with the mesenteric node is that of its extensive length and the normal variability encountered depending on the section of the node that is examined (Figure 2.2-14). Numerous secondary follicles with germinal centers... 

Figure 2,2-14 Normal rat mesenteric node (montage). Note variability of number and size of follicles and cortical units.

The US features of UC reflect the pathological aspects of the howel wall. The main abnormalities of the bowel wall include thickening, alterations of bowel wall echo pattern, hyperaemia and loss of haustra coli. Occasionally mesenteric hypertrophy and mesenteric nodes, or complications such as stenosis or toxic megacolon, can be found. 

In active tuberculosis, enlarged mesenteric nodes are frequent. Lymphadenopathy is located mainly at the mesentery around the ileum (Fig. 12.2 Lee 1993),but is sometimes found at the periportal (Fig. 12.6), peri-... 

Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors Nonhuman primates Positive inotropic vasodilating agent Small- and medium-sized arteries of kidneys, stomach, intestine, and mesenteric nodes Segmental vasculitis Vogel et al. (1999)... 

In rats, cells from immime lymph nodes are an excellent sotirce of specific B cells and we use routinely cells taken from the mesenteric nodes of animals immunized via the Peyer s patches. As with spleen cells, the animals are rechallenged via the Peyer s patches three days before removing the mesenteric nodes for fusion. Using this route for immunization we have successfully prepared rat X rat IgA-secreting hybridomas following a short immunization schedule whereas hyperimmunization 5nelded high affinity IgG antibodies (14). 

For fusions that will use the mesenteric nodes of rats, the antigens are injected into the Peyer s patches that lie along the small intestine. The surgical procedure is... 

Six to eight weeks after the initial challenge, anaesthetize the rats, test bleed, open the abdomen parallel to the initial incision, and re-immunize using the unchallenged Peyer s patches as recipient for antigen. Three days later kill the animals, remove the mesenteric nodes by blunt dissection, and use for cell fusion. 

Myeloma cells are harvested by centrifugation, washed in scrum-free DMEM. and resuspended at 10 cells/ml. Cells from the spleens or mesenteric nodes of immune animals are harvested by disa egating the lymphoid tissue by passage through a fine stainless steel mesh (tea strainer) using a sterile spatula (Protocol 6). Spleens from immune mice generally yield about 10 cells in total whereas immune spleens and mesenteric nodes fhsm one rat can yield up to 4 X 10 cells (excess cells can be frozen in liquid nitrogen for subsequent fusion). 

Fig. 9.10. Crohn s disease. CECT shows mural thickening of the horizontal portion of the duodenum with tubular stricture, causing prestenotic duodenal dilatation. Note the slightly enlarged mesenteric nodes...

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