期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1975
卷号:72
期号:5
页码:1753-1757
DOI:10.1073/pnas.72.5.1753
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:The effect of interferon on delayed-type by persensitivity to picryl chloride and sheep erythrocytes was examined in the mouse. When administered to sensitized animals on the day before or the day of challenge, tissue culture interferon inhibited both the ear swelling induced by pieryl chloride and footpad swelling induced by sheep erythrocytes. Newcastle disease virus, when injected into sensitized If-1l or If-1h congenic mice a few hours before challenge, caused an inhibition of delayed-type hypersensitivity which could be related to the amount of serum interferon induced by the virus. These results indicate that interferon production may represent one of the factors responsible for the depression of cell-mediated immune reactions during virus infection.