Virulent and avirulentRhodococcus equiinfection in T-cell deficient athymic nude mice: pathologic, bacteriologic and immunologic responses

Complementation of the plaque-forming cell responses of T-cell-deficient nude mice by a T-cell hybridoma.

Spleen cells from NFR/N mice primed with carrier rabbit erythrocytes were passed through nylon wool and fused with cells from the AKR T-cell lymphoma BW5147 in order to construct functional T-cell hybridomas. Several hybrids have been obtained. One of the cloned hybrids possesses a marked capacity to functionally complement the T-cell-dependent hapten-specific plaque-forming cell responses of N...

Herpetic keratitis in athymic (nude) mice.

The inflammatory response to herpes simplex virus infection of the cornea was studied in athymic nude (nu/nu) and heterozygote (nu/+) BALB/c mice. Although athymic mice were highly susceptible to HSV infection and died 13 to 17 days after corneal inoculation, they failed to develop necrotizing keratitis of the cornea. Heterozygote mice survived the initial virual infection, but many of these mi...

T-cell lymphoma induction by radiation leukemia virus in athymic nude mice

We report the development of extrathymic lymphoblastic lymphomas in RadLV-inoculated congenitally athymic nude mice. Thus, a leukemogenic virus which appears to require the presence of a thymus for its replication in normothymic mice can infect and transform target cells in the absence of this organ in the athymic host. The cells of one of these lymphomas have been established in vitro as a per...

Recent bacteriologic, immunologic and pathologic studies on experimental human leprosy in the mouse foot pad.

Infections of Brugia pahangi in conventional and nude (athymic) mice.

AKR, BALB/c and CBA/Ca and T.O. mice were completely resistant to infection with third stage infective larvae of Brugia pahangi. Third, fourth and fifth stage worms transplanted from the peritoneal cavity of jirds into the peritoneal cavity of mice continued to develop. BALB/c mice were the most susceptible of the strains tested and adult worms were obtained after each type of transplanted infe...