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      Microbial adjuvant and autoimmunity. IV. Production of lesions in the exocrine pancreas of mice by repeated injection of syngeneic pancreatic extract together with the capsular polysaccharide of Klebsiella pneumoniae.

      Microbiology and immunology
      Adjuvants, Immunologic, Animals, Autoantibodies, biosynthesis, Autoimmune Diseases, etiology, pathology, Female, Immunization, Klebsiella pneumoniae, immunology, Mice, Mice, Inbred Strains, Pancreas, Polysaccharides, Bacterial

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          Definite lesions in the exocrine pancreas were produced when SMA mice were immunized eight times at intervals of 30 days with a mixture of extract of pooled pancreas from syngeneic mice and the capsular polysaccharide of Klebsiella pneumoniae type I Kasuya strain (CPS-K), whereas no pancreatic lesions were produced in mice given CPS-K alone or pancreatic extract alone. The typical histological changes were characterized by infiltration with lymphocytes, plasma cells, and other mononuclear cells, degeneration and lysis of the acinar cells, destruction of the lobular architecture, and replacement of fatty tissue and fibrous connective tissue. The endocrine islets were well preserved. No specific histological changes were produced in the organs other than the pancreas in these mice. Most of mice immunized with pancreatic extract mixed with CPS-K produced serum precipitins to syngeneic pancreatic antigens. However, severe pancreatic lesions were also produced in mice showing no definite precipitin production.

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