id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-321992-lk2ao6m8 Annamalai, Thavamathi Age-dependent variation in innate immune responses to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus infection in suckling versus weaned pigs 2015-12-15 .txt text/plain 8539 472 58 In the present study, we investigated the innate immune responses such as cytokine and NK cell activity as well as changes in frequencies of T cells to examine if differences coincide with the higher disease severity of suckling versus weaned pigs. The infected weaned pigs also had significantly higher NK cell frequencies in blood and ileum at PID 5 (P < 0.05) compared to infected suckling pigs ( Fig. 2A and B) . In infected suckling and weaned groups, peak IFN␣, IL-12 and TNF␣ levels coincided with onset of diarrhea and fecal PEDV RNA shedding and peak serum PEDV RNA titers (PIDs 1 and 3, respectively); and (4) Frequencies of CD3+CD4+ T cells were significantly higher in ileum of suckling pigs than in weaned pigs, whereas there was no difference in frequency of CD3+CD8+ T cells. ./cache/cord-321992-lk2ao6m8.txt ./txt/cord-321992-lk2ao6m8.txt