M. Lambot et al., BOVINE VIRAL DIARRHEA VIRUS INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN BLOOD MONONUCLEAR-CELLS BY A MECHANISM LARGELY DEPENDENT ON MONOCYTES, Journal of General Virology, 79, 1998, pp. 1745-1749
The induction of apoptosis by bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) was
examined in bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) incubated
with an antigenically homologous pair of non-cytopathic and cytopathi
c BVDV. Our results show that the cytopathic biotype, in contrast to t
he non-cytopathic counterpart, induces apoptosis in PBMC. Flow cytomet
ry analysis of cells undergoing apoptosis revealed that: (1) monocytes
constitute the major cell population undergoing apoptosis; (2) cytopa
thic virus also induces apoptosis in BoCD4(+), BoCD8(+) and BoWC1(+) T
cells in whole PBMC cultures but not in purified T cell suspensions;
(3) the degree of apoptosis of BoCD4(+) and BoCD8(+) T cells incubated
with the cytopathic virus was significantly enhanced by the presence
of monocytes. Taken together, these results suggest that bovine monocy
tes play an important role in apoptosis induced by cytopathic BVDV.