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The most striking feature of the MCMV induced vascular disease was the formation of neointima in aortas of MCMV infected immunodeficient mice after irradiation (Table 2), (Fig 2).
injection of suckling mice induces vascular lesions in the aorta and pulmonary artery, which are characterized by cellular infiltrates containing T-lymphocytes [ 36 ] . A more recent study describes the development of MCMV induced vascular lesions in the aorta of both immunocompetent mice and those lacking IFN-γ responsiveness where IFN-γ is determined to be a major antiviral factor preventing the long term persistence of aortic vascular lesions [ 18 ] . The present study focused on neointima formation, which was seen only in immunocompromised mice.
The major finding of this study is the formation of neointima associated with MCMV infection in immunocompromised mice.
We utilized monoclonal antibody specific for α-SMA, a marker for myofibroblast cells, and found that neointima seen in the aortas of MCMV infected experimental animals contained myofibroblasts.
Smooth muscle/myofibroblast cells forming the neointima did not reveal any cells positive by TUNEL (Fig.