ArticleJournal of autoimmunity2013
Mouse liver-specific CD8(+) T-cells encounter their cognate antigen and acquire capacity to destroy target hepatocytes.
Article in Journal of autoimmunity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Experimental Models of Autoimmune Hepatitis: Disease Fidelity and Translational Relevance.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026Review
- Fetal microchimeric cells influence maternal lung health following term and preterm births.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Viral infections in type 1 diabetes mellitus--why the β cells?Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2016Review
- Type I Interferon Impairs Specific Antibody Responses Early during Establishment of LCMV Infection.Frontiers in immunology · 2016Article
- Emperipolesis mediated by CD8 T cells is a characteristic histopathologic feature of autoimmune hepatitis.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2015Article
- Expression of Viral Antigen by the Liver Leads to Chronic Infection Through the Generation of Regulatory T Cells.Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology · 2015Article
- Potential viral pathogenic mechanism in human type 1 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2014Review
- Pathophysiological Significance of Hepatic Apoptosis.ISRN hepatology · 2013Review
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Abstract
CD8(+) T-cell immune response to liver antigens is often functionally diminished or absent. This may occur via deletion of these autoaggressive T-cells, through the acquisition of an anergic phenotype, or via active suppression mediated by other cell populations. We generated a double transgenic model in which mice express CD8(+) T-cells specific for the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus nucleoprotein (LCMV-NP) and LCMV-NP as a hepatic neo-autoantigen, to study the immunological response of potentially liver antigen autoaggressive CD8(+) T-cells. Autoreactive transgenic CD8(+) T-cells were analyzed for functionality and cytotoxic effector status. Despite severe peripheral deletion of liver-specific CD8(+) T-cells, a fraction of autoreactive NP-specific CD8(+) T-cells accumulate in liver, resulting in hepatocyte injury and production of auto-antibodies in both male and female mice. NP-specific intrahepatic T-cells showed capacity to proliferate, produce cytokines and up-regulate activation markers. These data provide in vivo evidence that autoreactive CD8(+) T-cells are activated in the liver and developed an inflammatory process, but require additional factors to cause severe autoimmune destruction of hepatocytes. Our new model will provide a valuable tool for further exploration of the immunological response involved in inflammatory liver diseases, including autoimmune hepatitis.
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