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  • Title: Massive mammary gland infection and pregnancy-dependent mammary tumor development in mice infected neonatally with mouse mammary tumor virus (SW) but not in mice infected as adults, despite a dramatic local response.
    Author: Papiernik M, Waché AC, Pontoux C, Nabarra B.
    Journal: Eur J Immunol; 1997 Sep; 27(9):2145-51. PubMed ID: 9341752.
    Abstract:
    Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) (SW) caused a high incidence (65%) of pregnancy-dependent adenocarcinomas in BALB/c(SW) mice infected as newborns by suckling their mothers' milk. These tumors were type B adenocarcinomas which developed early, at about 1 year of age. Uninfected breeding females and those infected at an age of 8 weeks by injection of virus had the same low incidence of malignant tumors (13%), and the tumors developed later (at approx. 23-24 months). The low incidence of tumors in adult-infected mice was correlated with partial infection of the mammary glands, and delayed transmission of MMTV(SW) to the offspring. Although the virus was rapidly disseminated in both types of infection, the responses of neonatally infected and adult-infected mice to MMTV(SW) infection and viral superantigen (vSAG) presentation were different. Activation by and presentation of the vSAG was impaired in mice infected neonatally, and tolerance induction by clonal deletion was delayed. Local activation was dramatic in mice infected as adults and clonal deletion followed rapidly. Although interaction between B and T cells is needed for completion of the virus life cycle and viral amplification, the strong local immune response to MMTV(SW) in adult-infected mice limits mammary gland infection, and protects them against mammary tumor development.
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