T-cell effector function and unresponsiveness in the murine lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. II. Delayed-type hypersensitivity unresponsiveness reflects a defective differentiation from TD precursor to effector cell

Allan Randrup Thomsen; O Marker

T-cell effector function and unresponsiveness in the murine lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. II. Delayed-type hypersensitivity unresponsiveness reflects a defective differentiation from TD precursor to effector cell

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Abstract

An increase in the virus dose from 10(2) LD50 (low dose) to 10(4) LD50 (high dose) of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) results in markedly delayed virus clearance, in spite of a potent cytotoxic T-cell (TC) response. However, virus-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactivity is markedly depressed in high-dose mice, suggesting an association between DTH and virus clearance. When virus-primed memory cells are transferred, DTH reactivity as well as virus-clearing capacity is restored in high-dose mice, indicating that the virus is not present in a changed or concealed form. The role of T-cells mediating DTH (TD cells) in virus clearance was also studied by adoptive transfer to naive recipients. Here the high-dose primed cells did mediate virus clearance, although no DTH reaction was detectable 24-72 h after transfer. However, when footpad swelling was measured 96 h or more after transfer a DTH response emerged, indicating that TD priming had taken place in high-dose animals. Pre-irradiation of high-dose primed cells markedly inhibited the antiviral activity as well as DTH, suggesting that upon transfer to naive recipients TD precursors from high-dose mice would proliferate into effector cells capable of mediating both functions. Treatment with anti-Lyt2+C' abrogated the capacity to induce virus-specific DTH, thus confirming that the cells involved are not helper T (TH) cells. We conclude that the DTH unresponsiveness in high-dose mice reflects a defective differentiation of TD precursor into effector cells which is reversible upon transfer to a less antigen loaded environment. Furthermore, it is suggested that TD function is crucial to the process of virus clearance.

Original language	English
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
Volume	24
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	137-45
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0300-9475
Publication status	Published - 1986

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T-cell effector function and unresponsiveness in the murine lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. II. Delayed-type hypersensitivity unresponsiveness reflects a defective differentiation from TD precursor to effector cell. / Thomsen, Allan Randrup; Marker, O.

In: Scandinavian Journal of Immunology, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1986, p. 137-45.

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