MeSH definition : Measure of histocompatibility at the HL-A locus. Peripheral blood lymphocytes from
two individuals are mixed together in tissue culture for several days. Lymphocytes
from incompatible individuals will stimulate each other to proliferate significantly
(measured by tritiated thymidine uptake) whereas those from compatible individuals
will not. In the one-way MLC test, the lymphocytes from one of the individuals are
inactivated (usually by treatment with MITOMYCIN or radiation) thereby allowing only
the untreated remaining population of cells to proliferate in response to foreign
histocompatibility antigens.;
Measure of histocompatibility at the HL-A locus. Peripheral blood lymphocytes from
two individuals are mixed together in tissue culture for several days. Lymphocytes
from incompatible individuals will stimulate each other to proliferate significantly
(measured by tritiated thymidine uptake) whereas those from compatible individuals
will not. In the one-way MLC test, the lymphocytes from one of the individuals are
inactivated (usually by treatment with MITOMYCIN or radiation) thereby allowing only
the untreated remaining population of cells to proliferate in response to foreign
histocompatibility antigens.