Disease accompanying in utero viral infection. The role of maternal antibody in tissue injury after transplacental infection with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
Early, after in utero infection with LCM virus, SWR/J and HA/ICR mice developed manifestations of immune complex disease. Observations based on nursing such mice with virus-infected, immune, or noninfected mouse mothers indicated that maternal antiviral antibody was responsible for the early immune complex glomerulonephritis. Despite comparable viral persistance, in utero-infected offspring failed to develop glomerulonephritis when nursed by noninfected mouse mothers, but did when suckled by virus-infected mouse mothers. Nursing by mouse mothers carrying high titers of anti-LCM viral antibody markedly enhanced the Ig glomerular deposits and the resultant nephritis.
D000818:Animals; D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000276:immunology; D007105:Immune Complex Diseases / Q000276:immunology; D007136:Immunoglobulins; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000276:immunology; D008216:Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis / Q000276:immunology*; D008217:Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus / Q000276:immunology; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D051379:Mice; D008892:Milk; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000276:immunology*
D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D007136:Immunoglobulins