Activation of mouse lymphocytes by vesicular stomatitis virus.
AUTOR(ES)
Goodman-Snitkoff, G W
RESUMO
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a mitogen for mouse spleen cells, and infectious virus is not required for mitogenesis. At concentrations between 10 and 100 microgram per culture, VSV stimulated DNA synthesis and blast transformation. Maximal activation by VSV occurred 48 h after culture initiation. Spleen cells depleted of T-lymphocytes by treatment with anti-Thy 1.2 and complement and those obtained from congenitally athymic BALB/c nu/nu mice were activated by VSV, suggesting that VSV is a B-cell mitogen. Activation of spleen cells was independent of the host in which the virus was grown, since VSV grown in BHK-21, HKCC, or MDBK cells was mitogenic. The mitogenesis was specific for VSV, since MDBK cell-grown WSN influenza virus was not a mitogen in this in vitro activation system, VSV-specific antibody prevented VSV mitogenesis, and VSV was mitogenic for spleen cells from C3H/HeJ mice which were resistant to mitogenesis by endotoxin.
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