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ArticleMolecular vision2010

Ocular infection of mice with an avirulent recombinant HSV-1 expressing IL-4 and an attenuated HSV-1 strain generates virulent recombinants in vivo.

Kevin R Mott, Steven L Wechsler, Homayon Ghiasi

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Article in Molecular vision, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The expression of IL-2 and IL-4 in CD4(+) T cells from mouse lymph nodes and spleen during HSV-1-induced facial palsy.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2014
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kevin R MottCenter for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research Laboratories, CSMC Burns & Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Steven L Wechsler
Homayon Ghiasi
Institut de Recherche Vaccinale · FR

Funding

Ocular HSV: Role of virus and IL-2 in Optic neuritisR01EY015557 · NEI · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI GHIASI, HOMAYON · 2006 to 2010
$1.7M
NEI NIH HHS EY15557NEI NIH HHS R01 EY015557
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo assess the relative impact of overexpression of interleukin 2 (IL-2), interleukin 4 (IL-4), and interferon gamma (IFN-γ) expressing recombinant herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) on altering immune responses in ocularly infected mice.

methodsBALB/c mice were co-infected ocularly with avirulent HSV-1 strain KOS and avirulent recombinant HSV-1 expressing murine IL-4 (HSV-IL-4). Controls mice were co-infected with KOS+HSV-IL-2 or KOS+HSV-IFNγ. Following ocular infection, virus replication in the eye, corneal scarring (CS), and survival were determined. We also isolated recombinant viruses from eye and trigeminal ganglia of KOS+HSV-IL-4 infected mice.

resultsIn this study we found that ocular infection of BALB/c mice with a mixture of HSV-IL-4 and KOS resulted in increased death and increased eye disease. In contrast, when mice were infected in one eye with KOS and the other eye with HSV-IL-4 no death or eye disease was seen. Intraperitoneal co-infection of mice with KOS and HSV-IL-4 also did not result in HSV-1 induced death. Interestingly, ocular infection of mice with a mixture of HSV-IL-2 and KOS did not have any effect on severity of the disease in infected mice. We isolated recombinant viruses from KOS+HSV-IL-4 infected mice eye and trigeminal ganglia. Some of the isolated viruses were more neurovirulent then either parental virus. Infection of macrophages with IL-4 expressing virus down-regulated IL-12 production by macrophages.

conclusionsThese results suggest a role for IL-4 in suppression of immune response and generation of virulent viruses in vivo.

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AnimalsCorneaDown-RegulationEyeEye InfectionsFemaleHerpesvirus 1, HumanInterleukin-12 Subunit p35Interleukin-12 Subunit p40Interleukin-4MacrophagesMiceMice, Inbred BALB CRabbitsRecombination, GeneticRNA, MessengerInterleukin-12 Subunit p35Interleukin-12 Subunit p40Interleukin-4RNA, Messenger

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PMID21139679
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