Immunological elimination of infected cells as the candidate mechanism for tumor protection in polyomavirus-infected mice.

AUTOR(ES)

Wirth, J J

RESUMO

The uniformly lethal development of mammary tumors in polyomavirus-infected adult female nude mice was prevented by adoptive cell transfer of polyomavirus-immune splenocytes or peritoneal cells. Transferred immune cells also lowered the growth rate of emerging tumors. The induction of other relatively less frequent tumors of the skin and bone was decreased as well. Using in situ hybridization of whole-body sections as well as hybridization of nucleic acids from the mammary glands, we show for the first time that transferred immune cells, but not normal cells, virtually eliminated virus signal in the whole mouse and in the mammary glands. Since infected and tumorous mammary glands produce very little infectious virus, it appears that a major mechanism mediating the prevention of polyomavirus oncogenesis involves the immunological elimination of nonproductively and persistently infected cells.

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