scholarly journals Phenotypic and Functional Characterization of CD4+ T-Cells Infiltrating the Central Nervous System of Rats Infected with Coronavirus MHV IV

Author(s):  
H. Imrich ◽  
S. Schwender ◽  
A. Hein ◽  
R. Dörries
2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 3043-3047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodie S. Haring ◽  
Lecia L. Pewe ◽  
Stanley Perlman

ABSTRACT The neurotropic JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) causes acute encephalitis and chronic demyelinating encephalomyelitis in rodents. Previous results indicated that CD8 T cells infiltrating the central nervous system (CNS) were largely antigen specific in both diseases. Herein we show that by 7 days postinoculation, nearly 30% of the CD4 T cells in the acutely infected CNS were MHV specific by using intracellular gamma interferon (IFN-γ) staining assays. In mice with chronic demyelination, 10 to 15% of the CD4 T cells secreted IFN-γ in response to MHV-specific peptides. Thus, these results show that infection of the CNS is characterized by a large influx of CD4 T cells specific for MHV and that these cells remain functional, as measured by cytokine secretion, in mice with chronic demyelination.


Virology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 447 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 112-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa P. de Aquino ◽  
Shweta S. Puntambekar ◽  
Carine Savarin ◽  
Cornelia C. Bergmann ◽  
Timothy W. Phares ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiehao Zhou ◽  
David R. Hinton ◽  
Stephen A. Stohlman ◽  
Chih-Pin Liu ◽  
Lingwen Zhong ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 136 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Fee ◽  
Amanda Crumbaugh ◽  
Thomas Jacques ◽  
Benjamin Herdrich ◽  
Diane Sewell ◽  
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