Human T Cell Lymphotropic Retroviruses: Association with Diseases of the Nervous System
作者:
Bernd Kitze,
John N. Brady,
期刊:
Intervirology
(Karger Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 40,
issue 2-3
页码: 132-142
ISSN:0300-5526
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1159/000150540
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Human T cell lymphotropic virus;type I HTLV-I-associated;myelopathy/tropical spastic;paraparesis Viral persistence;Transactivation;Antiviral immune response
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
In less than 1 % of persistently infected individuals, human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) causes a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS), called HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. Important prerequisites for disease induction are oligoclonal expansion of HTLV-I-infected CD4+ T lymphocytes, their trafficking across the blood-brain barrier, expression of viral proteins in the CNS, and an increased immune response within the CNS. The HTLV-I Taxi protein has unique abilities to transactivate viral and cellular genes in T lymphocytes, but possibly also in cells of the CNS. Thus Taxi supports the persistence of HTLV-I, the ongoing immune responses within the CNS and the destruction of myelin and axons, most pronounced in the thoracic spinal cord.
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