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An attenuated variant of Coxsackievirus B3 preferentially induces immunoregulatory T cells in vivo.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 1991
Loudon R P, Moraska A F, Huber S A, Schwimmbeck P, Schultheiss P
Abstract excerpt
BALB/c mice infected with the Woodruff variant of coxsackievirus group B type 3 (CVB3W) develop myocarditis mediated by autoimmune cytolytic T lymphocytes. A variant of CVB3W (designated H3-10A1) which infects the myocardium but induces minimal mortality of myocarditis compared to the parental virus was selected. Although H3-10A1 infections stimulate normal CTL responses to CVB3-infected myocytes, the autoimmune...
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