id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-285757-fiqx4tll Mäkelä, M. J. Lack of Induction by Rhinoviruses of Systemic Type I Interferon Production or Enhanced MxA Protein Expression During the Common Cold 1999 .txt text/plain 1825 97 50 To study whether MxA protein expression is systemically upregulated during rhinovirus infection, blood specimens were collected from 40 patients with common cold and MxA expression in mononuclear cells analyzed by flow cytometry. In conclusion, expression of MxA in blood lymphocytes and an apparently systemic type I interferon response is not induced during rhinovirus infection or during most other cases of common cold in young adult patients. In the present study, the induction of a systemic IFN response as reflected by the expression of MxA protein in blood lymphocytes of patients with rhinovirus infection was examined. Our data suggests that type I IFN production in serum is not comparable to that seen in most other respiratory viral infections in vivo, since the rhinovirus-positive patients had only low or no expression of the MxA protein and no IFN-a/b was detectable in serum samples. ./cache/cord-285757-fiqx4tll.txt ./txt/cord-285757-fiqx4tll.txt