Immunosurveillance of naturally occurring feline leukemia.
When compared to their housemates that subsequently developed leukemia, cats that remained healthy had five-to tenfold higher (geometric mean) humoral antibody titers to the feline oncornavirus-associated cell membrane antigen. This is compatible with the application of the immunosurveillance hypothesis to the natural development of leukemia in an outbred mammalian species.
D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D002415:Cats / Q000276:immunology; D007938:Leukemia / Q000276:immunology / Q000662:veterinary*; D005256:Leukemia Virus, Feline / Q000276:immunology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000276:immunology / Q000662:veterinary
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000956:Antigens, Viral