Depression of PHA Response in Patients during Therapeutic Infection with MP Virus
作者:
Douglas Wilson,
Hugh E. Webb,
Norman M. Molomut,
Morton Padnos,
期刊:
Intervirology
(Karger Available online 1973)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 41-47
ISSN:0300-5526
年代: 1973
DOI:10.1159/000149403
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Lymphocytes;Cancer;Virus treatment
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Five patients with malignant tumors were injected intravenously (i.v.) with the MP strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) virus. During the course of the subsequent infection, they developed leukopenia, particularly lymphopenia. Phytohemagglutinin (PHA) responses of peripheral blood lymphocytes were severely depressed during the pyretic phase of their illness and slowly recovered over 4–6 weeks. Survival of unstimulated lymphocytes in culture was depressed in parallel with the decline in PHA responses. In vitro addition of infective MP virus to cultures of lymphocytes from healthy donors produced neither depression in PHA response nor change in survival of unstimulated lymphocytes. It was concluded that the fall in PHA transformability of the patients’ lymphocytes was largely a result of a generalized cytotoxic action by the virus on lymphoid tissue in vivo. The extent of this depression was probably magnified by the more rapid recovery of PHA-unresponsive B lymphocytes compared with the slower return in numbers of long-lived PHA-responsive T lymphocy
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