title: Mechanism of nonresponsiveness to AKR/Gross leukemia virus in AKR.H-2b:Fv-1b mice. An analysis of precursor cytotoxic T lymphocyte frequencies in young versus moderately aged mice.
abstract: As young adult AKR.H-2b:Fv-1b mice reach about 9 wk of age, they begin to develop a nonresponsiveness to AKR/Gross leukemia virus. Unlike young mice that are responders, moderately aged AKR.H-2b:Fv-1b mice, after immunization and secondary in vitro restimulation in bulk culture with AKR/Gross virus induced tumors, can not generate anti-AKR/Gross virus-specific CTL. The mechanism of conversion to nonresponsiveness in moderately aged AKR.H-2b:Fv-1b mice is not understood, but it is correlated with increased expression of endogenous ecotropic viral antigens. Our present investigation focuses on determining the frequency of anti-AKR/Gross virus precursor CTL in AKR.H-2b:Fv-1b mice as a function of age. This was achieved by performing limiting dilution cultures of immune spleen cells obtained from young and moderately aged AKR.H-2b:Fv-1b mice. Although spleen cells obtained from immune moderately aged mice can not differentiate in bulk cultures into anti-AKR/Gross virus-specific CTL, there was no evidence of substantially decreased frequencies of virus-specific precursor CTL, relative to precursor CTL frequencies observed in young responder AKR.H-2b:Fv-1b mice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756.
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Wegmann
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: McMaster
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D000406:AKR murine leukemia virus / Q000276:immunology*; D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000276:immunology; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008806:Mice, Inbred AKR / Q000276:immunology*; D008817:Mice, Mutant Strains; D011070:Poly I-C / Q000494:pharmacology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D011070:Poly I-C