Abstract
Study of the adaptive immune response to a viral challenge in an animal model often includes analysis of the T cell response. Here we discuss in detail the methods that are used to characterize the CD8 and CD4 T cell response following viral challenge in the lung.
Keywords: CD4 T cells, CD8 T cells, Coronavirus, Lung infection, Lung preparation
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (PO1AI060699, RO1AI091322). The protocol described herein was based on the following manuscript: Zhao et al. (2010).
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