Characterization of brain-infiltrating mononuclear cells during infection with mouse hepatitis virus strain JHM ☆

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Abstract

The eradication of infectious virus from the central nervous system (CNS) following infection with the neurotropic JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus (JHMV) is thought to be immune-mediated. Furthermore, a significant decrease of infectious virus coincides with the appearance of prominent inflammatory infiltrates in the brain and spinal cord. In the present study, mononuclear cells infiltrating the brain during JHMV infection were isolated and characterized. While all subsets of immune cells were present, there appeared to be a temporal relationship between the peak incidence of CD8 ⁺ T cells (40% of total isolated cells) and reduction of virus at day 7 post-infection. Cells with the natural killer (NK) phenotype (at least 30%) were also present throughout infection. These data suggest that CD8 ⁺ T cells and NK cells are prominent among cells which infiltrate the brain during JHM virus infection and may have important roles in reduction of virus within the CNS.

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Peter Lampert, Joel Sims, Alexis Kniazeff (1973)

Summary Weanling mice were given intraperitoneal inoculations of the neurotropic, JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus, the virulence of which had been altered by repeated mouse passages. Five to seven days later many animals developed hind leg paralysis. The pathology consisted of an acute encephalomyelitis with patchy demyelinating lesions in the brain stem and spinal cord. Virus particles, consistent with the appearance of corona viruses, were found in the cytoplasm of cells that were identified as oligondendrocytes by demonstrating connections of their plasma membranes with myelin lamellae. Following the degeneration of oligodendrocytes the myelin sheaths disintegrated or were stripped off intact axons by cytoplasmic tongues of polymorpho- and mononuclear leucocytes that intruded between myelin lamellae. The findings indicate that JHM virus has an affinity for oligodendrocytes in weanling mice and that demyelination occurs subsequently to the degeneration of the infected oligodendrocytes.

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Effective clearance of mouse hepatitis virus from the central nervous system requires both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells.

S Stohlman, Grant Williamson (1990)

Both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are required for the clearance of virus from the central nervous system following infection with the JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus. Development of antiviral antibodies requires the presence of CD4+ T cells but appears to play a minimal role in the reduction of virus. The data presented are consistent with the hypothesis that clearance of JHM virus is mediated by virus-specific CD8+ T cells, which appear to require the presence of CD4+ T cells.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Neuroimmunol

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Neuroimmunol

Title: Journal of Neuroimmunology

Publisher: Published by Elsevier B.V.

ISSN (Print): 0165-5728

ISSN (Electronic): 1872-8421

Publication date PMC-release: 11 November 2002

Publication date (Print): June 1991

Publication date (Electronic): 11 November 2002

Volume: 32

Issue: 3

Pages: 199-207

Affiliations

[a ]Department of Neurology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.

[b ]Department of Microbiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.

Author notes

[∗ ]Address for correspondence: Jo S.P. Williamson, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 2025 Zonal Avenue, MCH 142 Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.

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Publisher ID: 0165-5728(91)90189-E

DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(91)90189-E

PMC ID: 7119758

PubMed ID: 1851765

SO-VID: e5ba3652-6ee4-4e9e-a776-d8b776d89d60

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