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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 135, 899-907, Copyright © 1989 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Coxsackievirus-induced disease. CD4+ cells initiate both myocarditis and pancreatitis in DBA/2 mice

R Blay, K Simpson, K Leslie and S Huber
Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405.

DBA/2 male mice inoculated intraperitoneally with 1.8 X 10(5) plaque- forming units (PFU) coxsackievirus B-3 (CVB3) showed extensive inflammatory cell infiltration of the myocardium and acinar tissue of the pancreas in 7 days. Selective depletion of T lymphocyte subpopulations indicated that CD4 cells were either completely or partially responsible for cell damage in both organs. Other organs such as the liver were infected and contained virus titers equivalent to those seen in the heart and pancreas but showed no apparent tissue injury. The role of the CD4 cell was confirmed by positive selection of either T cell subpopulation from CVB3-immune lymphocytes in vitro and adoptive transfer of these cells into T cell-deficient (thymectomized, irradiated, bone marrow reconstituted, TXBM) DBA/2 recipients. Lymphocytes from CVB3-infected donor mice were adsorbed to myocyte, skin fibroblast, or liver vascular endothelial cell (VEC) monolayers. The adherent population was retrieved and adoptively transferred into uninfected syngeneic recipients. When killed 7 days later, the animals receiving unfractionated immune lymphocytes or cells eluted from heart monolayers developed both myocarditis and pancreatitis. Anti-Thy 1.2 and C' treatment of the unfractionated cells completely abrogated transfer of disease. Cells eluted from either fibroblast or liver VEC monolayers showed no pathogenicity. Adsorption of immune cells to heart monolayers in the presence of anti-IAd (class II major histocompatibility complex antigen, MHC) inhibited attachment of the pathogenic T cell, whereas anti KdDd (a class I MHC antigen) had no effect.

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