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  • Title: Murine leukemia: a virus-induced autoimmune disease?
    Author: Proffitt MR, Hirsch MS, Black PH.
    Journal: Science; 1973 Nov 23; 182(4114):821-3. PubMed ID: 4746489.
    Abstract:
    Thymocytes from mice carrying Moloney murine leukemia virus since birth are cytotoxic for normal syngeneic fibroblasts; they are much less cytotoxic for the same cells infected with this virus. The cytotoxic thymocytes appear to increase in number with age of the carrier mice and are present both during preleukemic and leukemic periods. These results suggest that lymphomas in carrier mice result from a sequence of events initiated by intrathymic destruction of normal cells by virus-infected cells, and culminating in the unrestricted proliferation of autoaggressive clones in the thymic cortex.
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