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Reference : Subset-Specific Analysis of Calcium Fluxes in Murine Aids


	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Human health sciences : Immunology & infectious disease
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/94861

Title :	Subset-Specific Analysis of Calcium Fluxes in Murine Aids
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Moutschen, Michel [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences cliniques > Immunopathologie - Transplantation]
	Trebak, M. [> > > >]
	Greimers, Roland [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Anatomie et cytologie pathologiques >]
	Colombi [ > > ]
	Boniver, Jacques [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Anatomie et cytologie pathologiques]
Publication date :	Nov-1996
Journal title :	International Immunology
Publisher :	Oxford University Press
Volume :	8
Issue/season :	11
Pages :	1715-27
Audience :	International
ISSN :	0953-8178
e-ISSN :	1460-2377
City :	Oxford
Country :	United Kingdom
Abstract :	[en] Infection of susceptible strains of mice with the Duplan strain of murine leukemia viruses induces a syndrome called MAIDS (murine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) characterized by immunodeficiency and lymphoproliferation. In addition to a complete refractoriness of most subsets of lymphocytes to mitogen stimulation, the development of phenotypic abnormalities occurs such as the appearance of an abnormal CD4+ T cell subset lacking membranes Thy-1. This study was performed to compare the calcium responses during the early stages of MAIDS (week 9 or earlier) between T cells and B cells and between CD4+Thy-1- and CD4+Thy-1+ T cells. B cells were strikingly less affected than T cells: their baseline [Ca2+]i did not significantly increase, and their calcium response to anti-IgM antibody and concanavalin A (Con A) was partially maintained. In contrast, the response to Con A was completely abolished in T cells. Interestingly, calcium mobilization in response to membrane receptor-independent stimuli such as ionophores and thapsigargin was strongly inhibited in T cells, while no such inhibition was found in B cells. In comparison with their CD4+Thy-1+ counterparts, CD4+Thy-1- T cells had blunted calcium responses in controls, as well as in infected mice. However, CD4+Thy-1+ T cells were also strikingly altered, suggesting that the loss of membrane Thy-1 could be associated with, but not directly responsible for abnormalities of calcium responses in CD4+ T cells from RadLV-Rs-infected mice.
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