Abstract
After injection of Sendai virus, a parainfluenza virus type 1, mice generate cytotoxic lymphocytes which lyse specifically Sendai-virus -infected target cells in vitro. Their action is not inhibited by specific antibody in vitro. Killer cell activity appears 4 days after infection, reaches a maximum on the 7th day and disappears on the 14th to 16th day. Decrease of cytotoxic cell activity is correlated with an increase of haemagglutinating antibodies. The cytotoxic effector cell could be characterized as a thymus-derived cell, there is no specific activity in antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytolysis (ADCC).The degree of cytotoxic effector cell activity is only slightly influenced by the dose of injected infective virus.Using different syngeneic Sendai-virus-infected cells as targets for cell-mediated cytotoxicity, a tumor line was not lysed by cytotoxic lymphocytes in spite of viral surface antigens.Preliminary experiments were performed to demonstrate the H-2 gene restriction of the cytotoxic interaction. Using macrophages and tumor cells as targets only syngeneic infected target cells were lysed.
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