GSBS Student Publications
Title
Role of different lymphoid tissues in the initiation and maintenance of DNA-raised antibody responses to the influenza virus H1 glycoprotein
GSBS Program
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
1996-12-01
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Antibody responses in mice immunized by a single gene gun inoculation of plasmid expressing the influenza virus H1 hemagglutinin and in mice immunized by a sublethal H1 influenza virus infection have been compared. Both immunizations raised long-lived serum responses that were associated with the localization of antibody-secreting cells (ASC) to the bone marrow. However, the kinetics of these responses were 4 to 8 weeks slower in the DNA-immunized than in the infection-primed mice. Following a gene gun booster, the presence of ASC in the inguinal lymph nodes, but not in other lymph nodes, revealed gene gun responses being initiated in the nodes that drain the skin target site. Both pre- and postchallenge, the DNA-immunized mice had 5- to 10-times-lower levels of antibody and ASC than the infection-primed mice.
Source
J Virol. 1996 Dec;70(12):9074-8.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of virology
Related Resources
PubMed ID
8971047
Repository Citation
Boyle CM, Morin MJ, Webster RG, Robinson HL. (1996). Role of different lymphoid tissues in the initiation and maintenance of DNA-raised antibody responses to the influenza virus H1 glycoprotein. GSBS Student Publications. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/122