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* Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and
Department of Medical Anatomy, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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-inducible protein 10/CXCL10 is a chemokine associated with type 1 T cell responses, regulating the migration of activated T cells through binding to the CXCR3 receptor. Expression of both CXCL10 and CXCR3 are observed during immunopathological diseases of the CNS, and this receptor/ligand pair is thought to play a central role in regulating T cell-mediated inflammation in this organ site. In this report, we investigated the role of CXCL10 in regulating CD8+ T cell-mediated inflammation in the virus-infected brain. This was done through analysis of CXCL10-deficient mice infected intracerebrally with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, which in normal immunocompetent mice induces a fatal CD8+ T cell-mediated meningoencephalitis. We found that a normal antiviral CD8+ T cell response was generated in CXCL10-deficient mice, and that lack of CXCL10 had no influence on the accumulation of mononuclear cells in the cerebrospinal fluid. However, analysis of the susceptibility of CXCL10-deficient mice to lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus-induced meningitis revealed that these mice just like CXCR3-deficient mice were partially resistant to this disease, whereas wild-type mice invariably died. Furthermore, despite marked up-regulation of the two remaining CXCR3 ligands: CXCL9 and 11, we found a reduced accumulation of CD8+ T cells in the brain parenchyma around the time point when wild-type mice succumb as a result of CD8+ T cell-mediated inflammation. Thus, taken together these results indicate a central role for CXCL10 in regulating the accumulation of effector T cells at sites of CNS inflammation, with no apparent compensatory effect of other CXCR3 ligands.
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