Measles virus-mononuclear cell interactions.
Measles virus-mononuclear cell interactions.
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麻疹病毒-单核细胞相互作用。
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-78621-1_6
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发表时间:
1995
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通讯作者:
Oldstone,MB
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作者:
Borrow,P;Oldstone,MB
The immune system has evolved to defend the body from pathogens; and concurrently pathogens, including viruses, have developed a variety of ingenious strategies to interfere with the immune defense mechanisms and hence promote their persistence at the individual or population level. The outcome of an infection is thus dependent on a two-way interaction between the pathogen and cells of the immune system.Measles was the infection with which the phenomenon of virus-induced immunosuppression was first demonstrated: VON PIROUET (1908) observed that the tuberculin skin test response of immune individuals was transiently depressed during the course of acute measles virus infection, from just prior to the rash until 7-20 or moredays following its appearance. This finding was exploited therapeutically for the treatment of nephrotic syndrome (BLUMBERG and CASSADY 1947). SMITHWICK and BERKOVICH (1969) extended VON PIROUET'S initial observations in an in vitro system, demonstrating that the proliferative response to tuberculin of immune lymphocytes isolated during the course of acute measles infection is depressed. It was further shown that this suppression was actually due to the virus, as culture of lymphocytes with measles virus in vitro suppressed their proliferative response to tuberculin antigen or a mitogen (SMITHWICK and BERKOVICH 1969; ZWEIMAN 1971). Likewise skin test responses and in vitro T cell proliferation