| Literature DB >> 6271688 |
R M Thorn, P Gupta, S J Kenyon, J F Ferrer.
Abstract
Cattle lymphocytes cultured for 3 days were found to spontaneously incorporate thymidine (3STI). Under optimal conditions of culture, the median magnitude of 3STI activity in lymphocytes from bovine leukemia virus (BLV)-infected cattle was higher than that of BLV-free cattle, but the ranges of the values overlapped. However, the 3STI activity of most BLV-infected cattle was specifically inhibited by serum containing BLV antibodies, whereas the 3STI activity of BLV-free cattle was not. The 3STI inhibitor copurified with immunoglobulin, and its activity could be absorbed with BLV. Rabbit anti-BLV serum inhibited 3STI, but rabbit anti-BLV p25 did not. These results indicate that BLV infection induces or expands a BLV-specific lymphocyte population. Spontaneous blastogenesis may be indicative of an immune response which controls virus spread.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 6271688 PMCID: PMC350824 DOI: 10.1128/iai.34.1.84-89.1981
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441