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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
卷 84, 期 12, 页码 2018-2025出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.23427
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age; transplantation; memory cells; effector cells; IFN-
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Varicella zoster virus (VZV) infections cause varicella and subsequently herpes zoster upon reactivation. Immune-compromised individuals and the elderly are at high risk of developing herpes zoster due to waning of VZV-specific T-cell immunity. In the present study, a novel functional T-cell assay was developed to test the correlation between age and VZV-specific T-cell responses in peripheral blood from healthy individuals. Secondly, VZV-specific T-cell responses from renal transplant recipients were compared with healthy individuals. Monocytes were differentiated into mature monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDCs) and were infected with VZV. T-cells were co-cultured with autologous moDCs infected with VZV and subjected to flowcytometric analysis to identify the phenotype (i.e., naive [NA: CCR7+CD45RO-], central [CM: CCR7+CD45RO+] and effector memory [EM: CCR7-CD45RO+] T-cells) and the frequency of VZV-reactive T-cell subsets by intra-cellular IFN-? flowcytometry. In contrast to NA and CM T-cells, the frequency of VZV-reactive CD4 and CD8 EM T-cells was inversely correlated with age (P?=?0.0007 and P?=?0.01). No difference was found in the percentage of VZV-reactive CD4 NA, CM and EM T-cells between transplant recipients and controls. However, the percentage of VZV-reactive CD8 EM T-cells was significantly lower in transplant recipients compared to controls (P?=?0.02). In conclusion, moDCs infected with VZV are efficient antigen presenting cells applicable to enumerate and characterize the phenotype and differentiation status of the systemic VZV-specific T-cell response ex-vivo. The data suggest that VZV-reactive EM T-cells are impaired in the elderly and renal transplant recipients. J. Med. Virol. 84:20182025, 2012. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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