Tascon R E, Stavropoulos E, Lukacs K V, Colston M J
National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom.
Infect Immun. 1998 Feb;66(2):830-4. doi: 10.1128/IAI.66.2.830-834.1998.
The role of CD8 T cells in controlling Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in mice was confirmed by comparing the levels of growth of the organism in control, major histocompatibility complex class II knockout, and athymic mice and by transferring T-cell populations into athymic mice. By using donor mice which were incapable of making gamma interferon (IFN-gamma), it was shown that IFN-gamma production was essential for CD8 cell mediation of protective immunity against M. tuberculosis.
通过比较在对照小鼠、主要组织相容性复合体II类基因敲除小鼠和无胸腺小鼠中该病原体的生长水平,并通过将T细胞群体转移到无胸腺小鼠中,证实了CD8 T细胞在控制小鼠结核分枝杆菌感染中的作用。通过使用无法产生γ干扰素(IFN-γ)的供体小鼠,研究表明IFN-γ的产生对于CD8细胞介导的抗结核分枝杆菌保护性免疫至关重要。