Evidence map›Paper›PMID 10694575›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2000

Postexposure vaccination massively increases the prevalence of gamma-herpesvirus-specific CD8+ T cells but confers minimal survival advantage on CD4-deficient mice.

G T Belz, P G Stevenson, M R Castrucci, J D Altman, P C Doherty

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

G T BelzDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
P G Stevenson
M R Castrucci
J D Altman
P C Doherty
University of Cambridge · GBEmory University · USIstituto Superiore di Sanità · IT

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI CHARLES ROBERTS · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
CELL MEDIATED IMMUNITY IN INFLUENZAR37AI029579 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI DOHERTY, PETER C · 1995 to 2004
$1.5M
CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY IN INFLUENZAR01AI029579 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI DOHERTY, PETER C · 1990 to 1994
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NCI NIH HHS CA21765NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765NIAID NIH HHS AI29579NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI029579
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mice that lack CD4(+) T cells remain clinically normal for more than 60 days after respiratory challenge with the murine gamma-herpesvirus 68 (gammaHV-68), then develop symptoms of a progressive wasting disease. The gammaHV-68-specific CD8(+) T cells that persist in these I-A(b-/-) mice are unable to prevent continued, but relatively low level, virus replication. Postexposure challenge with recombinant vaccinia viruses expressing gammaHV-68 lytic cycle epitopes massively increased the magnitude of the gammaHV-68-specific CD8(+) population detectable by staining with tetrameric complexes of MHC class I glycoprotein + peptide, or by interferon-gamma production subsequent to in vitro restimulation with peptide. The boosting effect was comparable for gammaHV-68-infected I-A(b-/-) and I-A(b+/+) mice within 7 days of challenge, and took more than 110 days to return to prevaccination levels in the I-A(b+/+) controls. Although the life-span of the I-A(b-/-) mice was significantly increased, there was no effect on long-term survival. A further boost with a recombinant influenza A virus failed to improve the situation. Onset of weight loss was associated with a decline in gammaHV-68-specific CD8(+) T cell numbers, though it is not clear whether this was a cause or an effect of the underlying pathology. Even very high levels of virus-specific CD8(+) T cells thus provide only transient protection against the uniformly lethal consequences of gammaHV-68 infection under conditions of CD4(+) T cell deficiency.

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AnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCells, CulturedFemaleFlow CytometryGammaherpesvirinaeLungMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Mutant StrainsMutationPeritoneumSpleenTime FactorsVaccinia virusViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID10694575
PMCPMC15997
OpenAlexW2053961364

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