Cytokine Gene Expression in Splenic CD4 ⁺ and CD8 ⁺ T-Cell Subsets of Chickens Infected with Marek's Disease Virus

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Specific-pathogen free chickens were infected with the RB1B strain of Marek's disease virus (MDV) and T cells from the spleens of infected as well as age-matched controls were fractionated by flow cytometry at 4, 10, and 21 days post-infection (d.p.i.). Real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR was used to assess the amount of cytokine transcripts as well as viral genes meq and glycoprotein B (gB). There...

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