Article
Does the gender difference in interferon production seen in picornavirus-infected spleen cell cultures from ICR Swiss mice have any in vivo significance?
Journal of interferon research - 1 Dec 1993
Curiel R E, Miller M H, Ishikawa R, Thomas D C, Bigley N J
Abstract excerpt
Splenocyte cultures from female ICR Swiss mice produced greater interferon (IFN) levels, particularly IFN-gamma, than did cultures from males by 12 h post-infection (pi) with the D variant of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV-D). This early IFN-gamma is produced by natural killer (NK)-like cells and is dependent on plastic adherent cells and IFN-alpha/beta. In this study, we evaluated the significance of this...
Topics
- Animals
- Cardiovirus Infections
- Cells, Cultured
- Encephalomyocarditis virus
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Immune Sera
- Immunity, Innate
- Interferons
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Male
