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- Document 0407
- DOCN M9620407
- TI The role of CD8+ T lymphocytes in coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis.
- DT 9602
- AU Henke A; Huber S; Stelzner A; Whitton JL; Department of
- Neuropharmacology, Scripps Research Institute, La; Jolla, California
- 92037, USA.
- SO J Virol. 1995 Nov;69(11):6720-8. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96013765
- AB Coxsackievirus infections have previously been shown to cause acute or
- chronic myocarditis in humans, and several mouse models have been
- established to study the pathology of this disease. Myocardial injury
- may result from direct viral effects and/or may be immune mediated. To
- determine the relative roles of these processes in pathogenesis, we have
- compared coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) infections of normal and
- immuno-compromised transgenic knockout (ko) mice. CVB3 was able to
- infect all strains used (C57BL/6, CD4ko, and beta-microglobulin ko [beta
- 2Mko]), and following intraperitoneal injection, two disease processes
- could be distinguished. First, the virus caused early (3 to 7 days
- postinfection) death in a viral dose-dependent manner. Immunocompetent
- C57BL/6 mice were highly susceptible (50% lethal dose = 70 PFU), while
- immunodeficient transgenic ko mice were less susceptible, showing 10-
- and 180-fold increases in the 50% lethal dose (for CD4ko and beta 2Mko
- mice, respectively). Second, a histologic examination of surviving CD4ko
- mice at 7 days postinfection revealed severe myocarditis; the
- inflammatory infiltrate comprised 40 to 50% macrophages, 30 to 40% NK
- cells, and 10 to 20% CD8+ T lymphocytes. The infiltration resolved over
- the following 2 to 3 weeks, with resultant myocardial fibrosis. In vivo
- depletion of CD8+ T lymphocytes from these CD4ko mice led to a marked
- reduction in myocarditis and an increase in myocardial virus titers.
- beta 2Mko mice, which lack antiviral CD8+ T cells, are much less
- susceptible to early death and to the development of myocarditis. We
- conclude that our data support a strong immunopathologic component in
- CVB3-induced disease and implicate both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. Compared
- with immunocompetent animals, (i) mice lacking CD4+ T cells (CD4ko) were
- more resistant to virus challenge, and (ii) mice lacking CD8+ T cells
- (beta 2Mko and in vivo-depleted CD4ko) showed enhanced survival and a
- reduced incidence of the later myocarditis. Nevertheless, the picture is
- complex, since (iii) removal of the CD4+ component, while protecting
- against early death, greatly magnified the severity of myocarditis, and
- (iv) removal of the CD8+ cells from CD4ko mice, although protecting
- against early death and later myocarditis, led to markedly increased
- virus titers in the heart. These data underscore the complex balance
- between the costs and benefits of effective antiviral immune responses.
- DE Animal Antibodies, Viral/BIOSYNTHESIS/BLOOD Apoptosis Comparative
- Study Coxsackievirus Infections/*IMMUNOLOGY/PATHOLOGY
- *Coxsackieviruses B CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*IMMUNOLOGY
- Heart/VIROLOGY Immunohistochemistry Lymphocyte Depletion Male Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL Mice, Knockout Mice, Transgenic
- Myocarditis/*IMMUNOLOGY/PATHOLOGY/*VIROLOGY Myocardium/PATHOLOGY
- Species Specificity Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Support, U.S. Gov't,
- P.H.S. Time Factors Tumor Necrosis Factor/ANALYSIS JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
- protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).
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