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SUBMITTER: Mandaric S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3410900 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mandaric Sanja S Walton Senta M SM Rülicke Thomas T Richter Kirsten K Girard-Madoux Mathilde J H MJ Clausen Björn E BE Zurunic Antonija A Kamanaka Masahito M Flavell Richard A RA Jonjic Stipan S Oxenius Annette A
PLoS pathogens 20120802 8
IL-10 is an anti-inflammatory cytokine that regulates the extent of host immunity to infection by exerting suppressive effects on different cell types. Herpes viruses induce IL-10 to modulate the virus-host balance towards their own benefit, resulting in prolonged virus persistence. To define the cellular and molecular players involved in IL-10 modulation of herpes virus-specific immunity, we studied mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection. Here we demonstrate that IL-10 specifically curtails the ...[more]