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  • Title: Altered splenic T cell function of BALB/cByJ mice infected with mouse hepatitis virus or Sendai virus.
    Author: Smith AL, Bottomly K, Winograd DF.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1987 May 15; 138(10):3426-30. PubMed ID: 2437194.
    Abstract:
    Mouse hepatitis virus and Sendai virus are among the most common viruses naturally infecting laboratory mice. Concanavalin A-stimulated in vitro proliferative responses of splenocytes were examined after infection of BALB/cByJ mice with the JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV-JHM) or Sendai virus. Mice were exposed to these viruses by presumed natural routes (per os or intranasally). Immunodepression was marked but transient among BALB/cByJ mice exposed to MHV-JHM. Among mice exposed to Sendai virus and examined over a 21-day period, spleen cells from only one mouse, sacrificed 10 days postinoculation, exhibited a severely impaired ability to respond to concanavalin A. Lymphokine production by spleen cells from control and infected mice was then assessed. IL 2 was either absent or present at very low levels in culture supernates of concanavalin A-unresponsive spleen cells from MHV-JHM-infected mice. Spleen cells from the single Sendai virus-infected mouse also produced very low levels of IL 2. In contrast, IL 1 was detected in supernatants of all spleen cell cultures derived from control, MHV-JHM-infected, or Sendai virus-infected mice. There was not a clear correlation between concanavalin A responsiveness and the ability of spleen cells to produce interferon-gamma. These results stress the importance of using laboratory mice of known microbiological status for immunologic experiments.
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