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The drug monosodium luminol (GVT) preserves thymic epithelial cell cytoarchitecture and allows thymocyte survival in mice infected with the T cell-tropic, cytopathic retrovirus ts1.
Immunology letters - 21 Feb 2009
Scofield Virginia L, Yan Mingshan, Kuang Xianghong, Kim Soo-Jin, Crunk Derek, Wong Paul K Y
Abstract excerpt
A mutant of MoMuLV, called ts1, causes an AIDS-like syndrome in susceptible strains of mice. In mice infected at birth, thymic atrophy, CD4+ T cell loss, body wasting, and death occur by approximately 30-40 days postinfection (dpi). We have shown previously that the death of ts1-infected cells is not caused by viral replication per se, but by oxidative stress and apoptosis following their accumulation the ts1...
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