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Journal of Virology, March 2001, p. 3043-3047, Vol. 75, No. 6
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.6.3043-3047.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

High-Magnitude, Virus-Specific CD4 T-Cell Response in the Central Nervous System of Coronavirus-Infected Mice

Jodie S. Haring,1 Lecia L. Pewe,2 and Stanley Perlman1,2,*

Departments of Microbiology1 and Pediatrics,2 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242

Received 12 October 2000/Accepted 16 December 2000

The neurotropic JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) causes acute encephalitis and chronic demyelinating encephalomyelitis in rodents. Previous results indicated that CD8 T cells infiltrating the central nervous system (CNS) were largely antigen specific in both diseases. Herein we show that by 7 days postinoculation, nearly 30% of the CD4 T cells in the acutely infected CNS were MHV specific by using intracellular gamma interferon (IFN-gamma ) staining assays. In mice with chronic demyelination, 10 to 15% of the CD4 T cells secreted IFN-gamma in response to MHV-specific peptides. Thus, these results show that infection of the CNS is characterized by a large influx of CD4 T cells specific for MHV and that these cells remain functional, as measured by cytokine secretion, in mice with chronic demyelination.

* Corresponding author: Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Medical Laboratories 2042, Iowa City, IA 52242. Phone: (319) 335-8549. Fax: (319) 335-8991. E-mail: Stanley-Perlman{at}uiowa.edu.

Journal of Virology, March 2001, p. 3043-3047, Vol. 75, No. 6
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.6.3043-3047.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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