Impairment of splenic natural killer cell activity of mice infected with the polycythemic strain of friend leukemia virus

Autor: Enzo Bonmassar, T Jezzi, Graziella Migliorati, Giovanni Rossi, Cartesio Favalli, Enrico Garaci
Rok vydání: 1982
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Zdroj: Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. 12
ISSN: 1432-0851
0340-7004
DOI: 10.1007/bf00205378
Popis: The natural killer (NK) cell activity of DBA/2J mice infected with the polycythemic variant of Friend leukemia virus (FLV-P) declines early after virus challenge, being non-detectable 2 weeks after FLV-P inoculation. Cells capable of suppressing the in vitro cytolytic activity of NK effector lymphocytes were detected in the spleen of infected mice. The mechanism of suppression could be based on cell-mediated impairment of NK effector function, or on antigenic competition from splenocytes expressing NK antigens elicited by FLV-P.
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