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Antiviral protection by virus-immune cytotoxic T cells: infected target cells are lysed before infectious virus progeny is assembled.

The Journal of experimental medicine ·Vol. 145 ·No. 3 ·1977-03-01 ·Pages 644-51

Zinkernagel RM, Althage A

Abstract

Virus-immune cytotoxic T cells can inhibit effectively growth of vaccinia virus in acutely infected target cells in vitro by destroying infected target cells before infectious virus progeny is assembled. Together with the fact that virus-specific T cells are demonstrable after 3 days, very early during infection, and with strong circumstantial evidence from adoptive transfer models in vivo, these data suggest that in some virus infections T cells may in fact act cytolytically in vivo to prevent virus growth and spread and be an important early antiviral effector mechanism.

MeSH Terms
Animals Fibrosarcoma/microbiology Kinetics Mice Mice, Inbred BALB C T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology,microbiology Tumor Cells, Cultured Vaccinia/immunology Vaccinia virus/immunology,physiology Virus Replication
Authors & Affiliations
2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Zinkernagel R M
Department of Cellular and Developmental Immunology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California 92037.
Althage A
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Article Info
Journal
The Journal of experimental medicine
Abbr.
J Exp Med
ISSN
0022-1007
Published
1977-03-01
Pages
644-51
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
2985109R
PMCID
PMC2180721
Subset
IM
Grants
NIAID NIH HHS · AI-07007 · United States
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