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Thomas MA, Shipman C, Sandberg JN, Drach JC. Adenosine phosphorylase activity in a mutant HEp-2 cell line contaminated with Mycoplasm hyorhinis. IN VITRO 1977; 13:502-9. [PMID: 409662 DOI: 10.1007/bf02615143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Metabolic studies in HEp-2/MP,MIR cells (an adenosine kinase, hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase negative mutant) indicated the presence of adenosine phosphorylase activity. This activity, unknown in established mammalian cell lines, resulted in the glycosidic cleavage of both adenosine and the antiviral drug arabinosyladenine. The activity was observed readily in the presence or absence of the adenosine deaminase inhibitor conformycin. Isopycnic separation of [3H] thymidine-labeled DNA species in CsCl density gradients resulted in the appearance of two distinct peaks. The heavier peak coincided with [14C]thymidine-labeled marker DNA of human origin, whereas the lighter peak was within the range associated with mycoplasmal DNA. Testing by commercial laboratories confirmed the presence of mycoplasma in HEp-2/MP,MIR cells. The contaminant was identified as Mycoplasma hyorhinis, a porcine mycoplasma. Following gamma-irradiation (3000 rads) to block cellular mitosis, the mucoplasma-contaminated HEp-2/MP,MIR cells were cocultivated with mycoplasma-free wild-type HEp-2 cells which did not exhibit adenosine phosphorylase activity. Following serial cocultivation in a medium designed to favor the survival of the wild-type cells, adenosine phosphorylase activity was found in the previously uninfected cells. Studies of this nature emphasize the need for investigators to carefully monitor their cell lines for mycoplasma.
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Van Roy F, Fiers W. Mycoplasma in African green monkey kidney cell cultures: biochemical detection and effects in virus-infected cells. IN VITRO 1977; 13:357-65. [PMID: 195895 DOI: 10.1007/bf02615095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Among a number of techniques for the detection of mycoplasmal contamination in African green monkey kidney (AGMK) cell lines, the assay of uridine phosphorylase activity is unsuitable because of the presence of high levels of endogenous enzymatic activity. A thymidine phosphorylase test, however, based on the chromatographic analysis of radiolabeled thymidine breakdown, turned out to be a simple and sensitive mycoplasma detection method. We found, using the latter technique, that 0.22-micrometer-filtered virus inocula could still transfer mycoplasma unless treated with diethyl ether. The effect of mycoplasmal contamination on the synthesis of simian virus 40 and adenovirus in AGMK cells was negligible under the conditions used (no depletion of arginine). Incorporation of radioactive thymidine in viral macromolecules, however, was inhibited severely by the presence of mycoplasma.
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van Diggelen OP, Phillips DM, Shin SI. Endogenous HPRT activity in a cryptic strain of mycoplasma and its effect on cellular resistance to selective media in infected cell lines. Exp Cell Res 1977; 106:191-203. [PMID: 852513 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(77)90256-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Engelhardt JA, Gabridge MG. Effect of squamous metaplasia on infection of hamster trachea organ cultures with Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Infect Immun 1977; 15:647-55. [PMID: 557458 PMCID: PMC421415 DOI: 10.1128/iai.15.2.647-655.1977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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An organ culture system for hamster trachea was developed for maintenance of the ciliated respiratory epithelium during periods of extended cultivation (i.e., greater than 20 days). Evaluation of five serum types showed that horse serum and fetal calf serum were best for the maintenance of epithelial ciliary activity and morphology. Rings that were opened on one side ("split rings") had the best maintenance of the ciliated epithelium as judged by the retention of ciliary activity and normal histological appearance after 3 to 4 weeks in culture. The in vitro induction of squamous metaplasia was achieved by cultivating explants in Waymouth MAB 87/3 (vitamin A-free) medium, without serum. This system allowed a direct comparison of the effects of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in two epithelial types, ciliated pseudostratified columnar and keratinizing squamous. Attachment of 14C-labeled mycoplasmas was more than twofold greater in the normal epithelium. Pretreatment of explants with neuraminidase decreased attachment for both squamous and pseudostratified epithelial surfaces to a similar basal level. Recovery of viable organisms from infected tissue of both epithelial types indicated that the organism titer remained essentially constant during the infection period, but was significantly higher for the pseudostratified ciliated epithelium. These results suggest that specific receptor sites for M. pneumoniae are markedly reduced by the induction of squamous metaplasia and, hence, appear to be specific for the normal respiratory surface containing goblet cells and pseudostratified, ciliated epithelial cells.
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MacLeod AD, Furr PM, Taylor-Robinson D. Prolonged eradication of urogenital mycoplasmas after administration of tetracycline to men in the Antarctic. Br J Vener Dis 1976; 52:337-40. [PMID: 1036463 PMCID: PMC1045296 DOI: 10.1136/sti.52.5.337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Meatal swabs were obtained at intervals over 1 year from 23 men in the Antarctic. A 5-day course of tetracycline was given to twelve of them. In retrospect it was found that the antibiotic had been received by two men who were harbouring ureaplasmas, one of whom also had M. hominis. After treatment, these organisms were not found in any of the swabs taken over the next year, except in a swab from one of the men following sexual contact after this time. One of the twelve men developed N.S.U. just before arriving in the Antarctic. He responded clinically to a shorter course of tetracycline and ureplasmas were not recovered from a meatal swab immediately thereafter. However, without further sexual contact, ureaplasmas and disease recurred about a month later. This time, after a 5-day course of tetracycline, disease was not seen, and ureaplasmas were not isolated, over the next year. In contrast, ureaplasmas were isolated consistently over a year from two men who were not given the antibiotic. The evidence strongly suggests that, under natural conditions, the most likely cause of mycoplasmas, particularly ureaplasmas, recurring in the genital tract after apparently adequate tetracycline therapy, is re-infection as a result of sexual re-exposure.
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Schiefer HG, Krauss H, Brunner H, Gerhardt U. Ultrastructural visualization of anionic sites on mycoplasma membranes by polycationic ferritin. J Bacteriol 1976; 127:461-8. [PMID: 776936 PMCID: PMC233079 DOI: 10.1128/jb.127.1.461-468.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Anionic sites on mycoplasma membranes were visualized in the electron microscope by a polycationized ferritin derivative. The technique of thin sectioning was used. Staining prior to fixation led to clustering of ferritin granules on the mycoplasma cell surface. On glutaraldehyde-fixed Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri, M. gallisepticum, M. pneumoniae, and Acholeplasma laidlawii, the anionic sites were uniformly distributed over the entire membrane surface. M. hominis did not bind the polycationic ferritin label. Chemical and enzymatic treatments of the mycoplasmas indicated that the anionic sites may be lipid phosphate groups. Isolated M. mycoides subsp. capri membranes were labeled exclusively on only one membrane surface, presumably the outer one. Liposomes prepared from diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine were also labeled by the polycationic ferritin.
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Schimmer BP. Adenylate cyclase activity and steroidogenesis in phenotypic revertants of an ACTH-insensitive adrenal tumour cell line. Nature 1976; 259:482-3. [PMID: 176589 DOI: 10.1038/259482a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cole BC, Overall JC, Lombardi PS, Glasgow LA. Mycoplasma-mediated hyporeactivity to various interferon inducers. Infect Immun 1975; 12:1349-54. [PMID: 1205616 PMCID: PMC415442 DOI: 10.1128/iai.12.6.1349-1354.1975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Three strains of Mycoplasma arthritidis were shown to induce marked hyporeactivity in mice to interferon induction by both Newcastle disease virus and poly(I:C). In contrast, the interferon response of mice to tilorone was only partially suppressed by pretreatment of the animals with mycoplasms. Hyporeactivity to Newcastle disease virus was maximal 1 and 3 days after mycoplasms treatment, but the interferon response was maximal 1 day after injection of the mycoplasmas and was no longer apparent by 5 days. No relationship was found between the ability of the mycoplasms themselves to induce interferon and the degree of hyporeactivity produced. These results suggest that mycoplasmas may alter virus-host relationships in vivo.
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Stanbridge EJ, Tischfield JA, Schneider EL. Appearance of hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase activity as a consequence of mycoplasma contamination. Nature 1975; 256:329-31. [PMID: 1143337 DOI: 10.1038/256329a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Hatanaka M, Del Giudice R, Long C. Adenine formation from adenosine by mycoplasmas: adenosine phosphorylase activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1975; 72:1401-5. [PMID: 236559 PMCID: PMC432542 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.72.4.1401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Mammalian cells have enzymes to convert adenosine to inosine by deamination and inosine to hypoxanthine by phosphorolysis, but they do not possess the enzymes necessary to form the free base, adenine, from adenosine. Mycoplasmas grown in broth or in cell cultures can produce adenine from adenosine. This activity was detected in a variety of mycoplasmatales, and the enzyme was shown to be adenosine phosphorylase. Adenosine formation from adenine and ribose 1-phosphate, the reverse reaction of adenine formation from adenosine, was also observed with the mycoplasma enzyme. Adenosine phosphorylase is apparently common to the mycoplasmatales but it is not universal, and the organisms can be divided into three groups on the basis of their use of adenosine as substrate. Thirteen of 16 Mycoplasma, Acholeplasma, and Siroplasma species tested exhibit adenosine phosphorylase activity. M. lipophilium differed from the other mycoplasmas and shared with mammalian cells the ability to convert adenosine to inosine by deamination. M. pneumoniae and the unclassified M. sp. 70-159 showed no reaction with adenosine. Adenosine phosphorylase activity offers an additional method for the detection of mycoplasma contamination of cells. The patterns of nucleoside metabolism will provide additional characteristics for identification of mycoplasmas and also may provide new insight into the classification of mycoplasmas.
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Léonard A, Botis S. Chromosome damage induced by gentamicin in mouse L-cells. EXPERIENTIA 1975; 31:341-3. [PMID: 1116547 DOI: 10.1007/bf01922575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Schneider EL, Stanbridge EJ. Comparison of methods for the detection of Mycoplasmal contamination of cell cultures: a review. IN VITRO 1975; 11:20-34. [PMID: 1092606 DOI: 10.1007/bf02615318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2023]
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Several reviews in recent years have emphasized the problems created by mycoplasmal contamination of cultured cells (1-5). Because of the hazards of interpreting data derived from mycoplasma contaminated cells, most cell biologists routinely screen their cultures for the presence of these organisms. In recent years, the limitations of standard microbiological testing for mycoplasmas have become increasingly apparent and have led to the development of several new biochemical techniques for detection of these organisms. The aim of this review is to describe and compare available detection techniques and to evaluate their relative efficacy. Those properties of mycoplasmas that are relevant to their role as cell culture contaminants will be briefly discussed.
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Stewart SM, Duthie JJ, Mackay JM, Marmion BP, Alexander WR. Mycoplasmas and rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 1974; 33:346-52. [PMID: 4414752 PMCID: PMC1006269 DOI: 10.1136/ard.33.4.346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Taylor-Robinson D, Carney FE. Growth and effect of mycoplasmas in Fallopian tube organ cultures. Br J Vener Dis 1974; 50:212-6. [PMID: 4210579 PMCID: PMC1045018 DOI: 10.1136/sti.50.3.212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Low IE. Isolation of Acholeplasma laidlawii from commercial, serum-free tissue culture medium and studies on its survival and detection. Appl Microbiol 1974; 27:1046-52. [PMID: 4598432 PMCID: PMC380206 DOI: 10.1128/am.27.6.1046-1052.1974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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This report documents the first isolation of Acholeplasma laidlawii from a commercial lot of serum-free Dulbecco basal medium. Experimental studies demonstrated survival of the organism for at least 1 year depending on the concentration of the contaminating organism as well as pH and temperature of storage of the serum-free medium. A comparison of isolation methods showed that concentration by filtration through 220-nm membrane filters and testing the filters for mycoplasma recovery, especially when using phenol red-diphasic Hayflick medium, was both sensitive and practical for the average laboratory.
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Howard DK, Hay J, Melvin WT, Durham JP. Changes in DNA and RNA synthesis and associated enzyme activities after the stimulation of serum-depleted BHK21-C13 cells by the addition of serum. Exp Cell Res 1974; 86:31-42. [PMID: 4545459 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(74)90643-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Schneider EL, Stanbridge EJ, Epstein CJ, Golbus M, Abbo-Halbasch G, Rodgers G. Mycoplasma contamination of cultured amniotic fluid cells: potential hazard to prenatal chromosomal diagnosis. Science 1974; 184:477-80. [PMID: 4819680 DOI: 10.1126/science.184.4135.477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Amniotic fluid cell cultures were screened for mycoplasma contamination. Mycoplasma RNA's were observed in more than half the cultures examined. Karyotypic analyses of these contaminated cell cultures revealed a significant increase in chromosomal aberrations. These studies emphasize the need for screening for mycoplasma in cultured amniotic cells.
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Schneider EL, Stanbridge EJ, Epstein CJ. Incorporation of 3H-uridine and 3H-uracil into RNA: a simple technique for the detection of mycoplasma contamination of cultured cells. Exp Cell Res 1974; 84:311-8. [PMID: 4817725 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(74)90411-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 386] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Brown S, Teplitz M, Revel JP. Interaction of mycoplasmas with cell cultures, as visualized by electron microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1974; 71:464-8. [PMID: 4521817 PMCID: PMC388027 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.71.2.464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Mycoplasmas were examined on the surfaces of tissue culture cells prepared for transmission and scanning electron microscopy. The pleomorphic bodies seen were proved to be mycoplasmas by the use of thin sections, passage of the infection from one cell line to another, and by autoradiography with [(3)H]thymidine both on the sections and the replicas. The mycoplasmas were not always evenly distributed over the cell's surface; their arrangement seemed to correlate with the activity or morphology of the cell. The use of replicas and scanning electron microscopy in routine examination of cultures for mycoplasma contamination is discussed.
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Windsor GD, Nicholls A, Maini RN, Edward DG, Lemcke RM, Dumonde DC. Search for mycoplasma in synovial fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 1974; 33:70-4. [PMID: 4595272 PMCID: PMC1006203 DOI: 10.1136/ard.33.1.70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Dvořák R, Jänner M, Eckhardt U. Veränderungen der Ultrastruktur menschlicher Geschwülste durch Übertragung auf Labortiere. Arch Dermatol Res 1973. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00595219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hopps HE, Meyer BC, Barile MF, DelGiudice RA. PROBLEMS CONCERNING "NONCULTIVABLE" MYCOPLASMA CONTAMINANTS IN TISSUE CULTURES. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1973. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1973.tb45655.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rinaldo CR, Overall JC, Cole BC, Glasgow LA. Mycoplasma-associated induction of interferon in ovine leukocytes. Infect Immun 1973; 8:796-803. [PMID: 4356073 PMCID: PMC422930 DOI: 10.1128/iai.8.5.796-803.1973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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A mycoplasmal species, Acholeplasma laidlawii, isolated as a contaminant from a fetal lamb kidney cell line, was shown to be associated with the induction of interferon in cultures of ovine peripheral blood leukocytes. Broth cultures of the mycoplasma induced between 20 and 230 U of interferon per ml in leukocytes from two adult ewes. The amount of interferon produced correlated with the inoculum size of mycoplasma. Interferon production was associated with replication of the mycoplasma in the leukocyte cultures. Interferon was not induced by sterile mycoplasmal broth, a cell-free filtrate of the mycoplasmal cultures, or heat-inactivated mycoplasmas. The antiviral substance was characterized as interferon by the usual criteria.
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Crandell RA, Fabricant CG, Nelson-Rees WA. Development, characterization, and viral susceptibility of a feline (Felis catus) renal cell line (CRFK). IN VITRO 1973; 9:176-85. [PMID: 4130570 DOI: 10.1007/bf02618435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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McGarrity GJ, Coriell LL. Detection of anaerobic mycoplasmas in cell cultures. IN VITRO 1973; 9:17-8. [PMID: 4583684 DOI: 10.1007/bf02615983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Lindsey JR, Cassell H. Experimental Mycoplasma pulmonis infection in pathogen-free mice. Models for studying mycoplasmosis of the respiratory tract. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 1973; 72:63-90. [PMID: 4719529 PMCID: PMC1903941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Mice of a Swiss substrain, reared under rigid pathogen-free (PF) conditions, were inoculated intranasally with broth cultures of Mycoplasma pulmonis ranging in dose from 10(1) to 9 x 10(9) colony forming units (CFU). A highly reproducible disease resulted with an LD(50) of 1.3 x 10(8) CFU and a PD(50) (dose producing pneumonia in 50% of mice) of 3.4 x 10(5) CFU. The inoculating dose of M pulmonis was found to be the critical determinant of the severity, duration and pathologic character of the respiratory disease produced. PF mice given 10(4) CFU or less developed a transient illness characterized by low frequencies of rhinitis, otitis media, laryngotracheitis and focal pneumonia. This was proposed as a low dose model. Doses of 10(5) to 10(9) CFU resulted in high frequencies of rhinitis, otitis media, laryngotracheitis and pneumonia. Within the first 10 days the pneumonia often was fatal, being characterized by an outpouring of neutrophils and edema fluid into alveolar spaces, pulmonary congestion and hemorrhage and, occasionally, pleuritis. This high dose-acute disease model was shown to be the result of seeding alveoli with large numbers of organisms at the time of intranasal inoculation. In animals surviving doses of 10(5) to 10(9) CFU beyond approximately 10 days postinoculation, the larger concentration of organisms was present in bronchi and bronchioles, giving rise to a third model, the high dose-chronic disease model. The predominant lesions were chronic suppurative bronchitis and bronchiolitis, marked peribronchial lymphoid cuffing, variable numbers of neutrophils and macrophages in alveoli, and complications such as bronchiectasis and pulmonary abscesses. Identical lesions were observed in axenic mice infected with M pulmonis. The infection in PF mice is considered a highly useful experimental system, both for comparative study of respiratory mycoplasmosis and for investigations directed toward understanding and eliminating the natural disease this agent causes in conventional mice and rats.
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Schneider EL, Epstein CJ, Epstein WL, Betlach M, Halbasch GA. Detection of mycoplasma contamination in cultured human fibroblasts. Comparison of biochemical and microbiological techniques. Exp Cell Res 1973; 79:343-9. [PMID: 4592914 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(73)90453-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Dvorák R, Jänner M, Eckhardt U. [Ultrastructural changes of human tumours after transfer into laboratory animals. I. Malignant melanoma (4 cases) (author's transl)]. ARCHIV FUR DERMATOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG 1973; 246:383-400. [PMID: 4758845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Studzinski GP, Gierthy JF, Cholon JJ. An autoradiographic screening test for mycoplasmal contamination of mammalian cell cultures. IN VITRO 1973; 8:466-72. [PMID: 4737672 DOI: 10.1007/bf02615948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Cole BC, Ward JR. Interaction of Mycoplasma arthritidis and other mycoplasmas with murine peritoneal macrophages. Infect Immun 1973; 7:691-9. [PMID: 4587519 PMCID: PMC422746 DOI: 10.1128/iai.7.5.691-699.1973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Neither mouse nor rat peritoneal macrophages were able to kill Mycoplasma arthritidis to any observable degree in the absence of specific hyperimmune rabbit antiserum. Although convalescent mouse and rat serum were somewhat inhibitory to M. arthritidis in the absence of macrophages, these sera did not promote active phagocytosis by peritoneal macrophages. In fact, the macrophages appeared to protect the mycoplasmas against the inhibitory effects of the antisera by stimulating their growth. Hyperimmune rabbit antiserum against M. arthritidis initiated phagocytic action and resulted in a 50-fold decrease in numbers of viable mycoplasmas by 6 h. In contrast with M. arthritidis, M. pulmonis rapidly adsorbed to the surface of peritoneal macrophages. Upon addition of specific rabbit antiserum, a rapid decrease in viable organisms occurred, and a more complete destruction of organisms ensued in comparison with M. arthritidis. M. gallinarum, as with M. arthritidis, did not adsorb to the macrophages to any great extent. Phagocytic action was observed only in the presence of homologous rabbit antiserum and was not marked until after 6 h of incubation.
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Slack PM, Taylor-Robinson D. The influence of mycoplasmas on the cytopathic effect of varicella virus. ARCHIV FUR DIE GESAMTE VIRUSFORSCHUNG 1973; 42:88-95. [PMID: 4356124 DOI: 10.1007/bf01250510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Leffert HL, Paul D. Serum dependent growth of primary cultured differentiated fetal rat hepatocytes in arginine-deficient medium. J Cell Physiol 1973; 81:113-24. [PMID: 4568374 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1040810114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Chapter 6: Cell Culture Contaminants. Methods Cell Biol 1973. [DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(08)60051-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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