Adoptive transfer of CD8+ T cells from immune animals does not transfer immunity to blood stage Plasmodium yoelii malaria.
Vinetz J, Kumar S, Good M, Fowlkes B, Berzofsky J, Miller L. Adoptive transfer of CD8+ T cells from immune animals does not transfer immunity to blood stage Plasmodium yoelii malaria. The Journal Of Immunology 1990, 144: 1069-74. PMID: 1967271, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.144.3.1069.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBlood-stage infectionT cellsSpleen cellsBALB/c miceBALB/c nu/nuMouse strainsClass I MHC AgMechanisms of CD8Vivo CD8 depletionAbsence of CD4Depletion of CD8P. yoelii infectionPopulation of CD4T-cell involvementAdoptive transfer experimentsPlasmodium yoelii 17XPlasmodium yoelii malariaUnfractionated spleen cellsBALB/cImmune CD4Immune CD8Vivo CD4CD8 depletionAdoptive transferImmune animals