Extension of the mean time to death of mice with a lethal infection of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus by antithymocyte serum treatment
| Autor: | D R Woodman, G A Eddy, A T McManus |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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Encephalomyelitis
Equine Male Lymphocyte viruses T-Lymphocytes Immunology Population Fluorescent Antibody Technique Spleen Microbiology Virus Lymphocyte Depletion Encephalitis Virus Venezuelan Equine Mice Blood serum medicine Animals education Antilymphocyte Serum education.field_of_study Mice Inbred C3H biology Encephalomyelitis Venezuelan Equine Organ Size medicine.disease Virology Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Viral replication biology.protein Parasitology Antibody Immunity Maternally-Acquired Encephalitis Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Infection and immunity. 12(5) |
| ISSN: | 0019-9567 |
| Popis: | The mean time to death of mice infected with Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus was increased 2 days by antithymocyte serum (ATS) treatment given 1 day before and 1 day after virus inoculation. Virus assays of blood, brain, and spleen indicated that VEE virus replication was delayed by ATS. Additionally, mice treated with ATS exhibited neurological signs later than untreated mice. During the infection, the percentage of splenic B lymphocytes as determined by surface immunoglobulin staining increased. ATS treatment caused a further elevation of the percentage of splenic B lymphocytes. These results show a selective depletion of the non-immunoglobulin-bearing lymphocyte population during VEE virus infection and support the hypothesis that ATS destroys or alters an important population of cells associated with the normal course of pathogenesis and the replication of VEE virus to high titers in the mouse. |
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