Article
Murine leukemia virus induced central nervous system diseases.
Leukemia - 1 Jan 1992
Wong P K, Shikova E, Lin Y C, Saha K, Szurek P F, Stoica G, Madden R, Brooks B R
Abstract excerpt
The ts1 mutant of Moloney murine leukemia virus TB (MoMuLV-TB) causes a degenerative neurologic and immunologic disease in mice characterized by development of spongiform encephalomyelopathy that results in hind-limb paralysis, marked thymic atrophy associated with immunodeficiency, and generalized body wasting. T cells, particularly CD4+ helper T cells, play a key role in the pathogenesis of the disease induced...
Topics
- Animals
- Brain Neoplasms
- Genes, env
- Leukemia, Experimental
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Moloney murine leukemia virus
- Mutation
- Spleen
- T-Lymphocytes
- Viral Envelope Proteins
- Virus Replication
