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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 155, Issue 8 3979-3986, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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A nonlethal rat parvovirus infection suppresses rat T lymphocyte effector functions

MD McKisic, FX Paturzo, DJ Gaertner, RO Jacoby and AL Smith
Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8016, USA.

Inoculation of the UMass strain of rat virus (RV-UMass) into adult immunocompetent rats results in a prolonged subclinical infection that is resolved in 4 to 8 wk. Co-labeling studies, using in situ hybridization (ISH) and immunohistochemistry (IHC), confirmed that RV- UMass was lymphocytotropic and capable of infecting CD4+ and CD8+ T cells as well as B cells. ISH studies also revealed that virus replication was restricted in unstimulated cells but was productive in concanavalin A-stimulated lymphocytes. A corollary of productive infection of lymphocytes was the suppression of lymphocyte functions. Although RV-UMass did not appear to induce phenotypic changes during the course of infection, cells from infected rats had diminished proliferation and cytolytic responses. Both peripheral and mesenteric lymph node cells exhibited only partial recovery of their proliferative and cytolytic capacities one month after infection. Furthermore, RV- UMass-infected tissue culture maintained alloreactive CD4+ T cells in vitro, and a nonlethal infection of this T cell line inhibited Ag- and IL-2-induced proliferation. Because parvoviruses are widespread among laboratory rodents, these findings emphasize the importance of identifying and excluding parvovirus infection in rodents and in cultures of rat T lymphocytes.


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