Lymphocyte mitogen reactivity and enumeration of circulating B- and T-cells during feline leukemia virus infection in the cat.
Lymphocyte mitogen reactivity and enumeration of circulating B- and T-cells during feline leukemia virus infection in the cat.
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猫白血病病毒感染期间淋巴细胞有丝分裂原反应性以及循环 B 细胞和 T 细胞的计数。
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1976
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D. Yohn
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G. Cockerell;E. Hoover;S. Krakowka;R. Olsen;D. Yohn
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Mitogen-induced blast transformation of peripheral blood lymphocytes and quantitative changes in circulating T- and B-cells were studied serially in cats inoculated with feline leukemia virus (FeLV). Concanavalin A-induced blast transformation sharply declined beginning at 5 weeks post inoculation (Pl) in FeLV-infected cats when compared to age-matched uninfected control cats. Similar but less consistent changes were seen in responses to pokeweed mitogen-induced stimulation. In most infected kittens this defect persisted until they died from thymic lymphosarcoma, 15-24 weeks Pl. An early lymphopenia, due primarily to a decrease in circulating B-cells, occurred in infected cats 5-8 weeks Pl. Following a return of total and B-lymphocytes to control values, infected cats developed increased numbers of T-cells at 16 or more weeks Pl, which correlated with circulating lymphoblastic lymphocytes bearing T-cell markers. These results correlated neoplasia arising in a thymus-derived lymphocyte population with mitogenic hyporeactivity in the preneoplastic period and suggested that FeLV-induced immune alterations may be a necessary antecedent of leukemogenesis in the cat.