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Mansfield KG, Sasseville VG, Westmoreland SV. Molecular Localization Techniques in the Diagnosis and Characterization of Nonhuman Primate Infectious Diseases. Vet Pathol 2013; 51:110-26. [DOI: 10.1177/0300985813509386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Molecular localization techniques remain important diagnostic and research tools for the pathologist evaluating nonhuman primate tissues. In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry protocols have been developed for many important pathogens of nonhuman primates, including RNA and DNA viruses, prions, and bacterial, protozoal, and fungal pathogens. Such techniques will remain critical in defining the impact and relevance of novel agents on animal health and disease. A comparative pathology perspective often provides valuable insight to the best strategy for reagent development and can also facilitate interpretation of molecular localization patterns. Such a perspective is grounded in a firm understanding of microbe-host pathobiology. This review summarizes current molecular localization protocols used in the diagnosis of selected primate infectious diseases.
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- K. G. Mansfield
- Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA, USA
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This review is an updated summary of nearly 30 years of SRV history and provides new and critical findings of original research accomplished in the last 5 years including, but not limited to, the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the origin of hematopoietic abnormalities observed in infected hosts and proposed new SRV serotypes. Despite major advances in the understanding and control of SRV disease, much more remains to be learned and SRV continues to be an exciting and attractive primate model for comparative studies of the mechanisms of retroviral immunosuppression.
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- N A Montiel
- California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8542, USA.
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WHITE STEPHEND, YAGER JULIEA. Resident Dendritic Cells in the Epidermis: Langerhans Cells, Merkel Cells and Melanocytes. Vet Dermatol 2008; 6:1-8. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3164.1995.tb00034.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- STEPHEN D. WHITE
- *Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, U.S.A
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- †Department of Pathology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada NIG 2W1
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LaBonte JA, Madani N, Sodroski J. Cytolysis by CCR5-using human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope glycoproteins is dependent on membrane fusion and can be inhibited by high levels of CD4 expression. J Virol 2003; 77:6645-59. [PMID: 12767984 PMCID: PMC156190 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.12.6645-6659.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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T-tropic (X4) and dualtropic (R5X4) human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoproteins kill primary and immortalized CD4(+) CXCR4(+) T cells by mechanisms involving membrane fusion. However, because much of HIV-1 infection in vivo is mediated by M-tropic (R5) viruses whose envelope glycoproteins use CCR5 as a coreceptor, we tested a panel of R5 and R5X4 envelope glycoproteins for their ability to lyse CCR5(+) target cells. As is the case for CXCR4(+) target cells, HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins expressed by single-round HIV-1 vectors killed transduced CD4(+) CCR5(+) cells in a membrane fusion-dependent manner. Furthermore, a CD4-independent R5 HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein was able to kill CD4-negative target cells expressing CCR5, demonstrating that CD4 is not intrinsically required for the induction of death. Interestingly, high levels of CD4 expression protected cells from lysis and syncytium formation mediated by the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins. Immunoprecipitation experiments showed that high levels of CD4 coexpression inhibited proteolytic processing of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein precursor gp160. This inhibition could be overcome by decreasing the CD4 binding ability of gp120. Studies were also undertaken to investigate the ability of virion-bound HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins to kill primary CD4(+) T cells. However, neither X4 nor R5X4 envelope glycoproteins on noninfectious virions caused death in primary CD4(+) T cells. These results demonstrate that the interaction of CCR5 with R5 HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins capable of inducing membrane fusion leads to cell lysis; overexpression of CD4 can inhibit cell killing by limiting envelope glycoprotein processing.
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- Jason A LaBonte
- Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Lerche NW, Osborn KG. Simian retrovirus infections: potential confounding variables in primate toxicology studies. Toxicol Pathol 2003; 31 Suppl:103-10. [PMID: 12597437 DOI: 10.1080/01926230390174977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Various species of nonhuman primates are natural hosts for 6 exogenous retroviruses, including gibbon-ape leukemia virus (GaLV), simian sarcoma virus, simian T-lymphotropic virus (STLV), simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), simian type D retrovirus (SRV), and simian foamy virus (SFV). These viruses establish persistent infections with a broad spectrum of pathogenic potential, ranging from highly pathogenic to nonpathogenic, depending on various host, virus, and environmental factors. Latent or subclinical infections are common, and various procedures associated with experimental protocols may lead to virus reactivation and disease. Adverse effects on toxicologic research by undetected retroviral infections can occur in several ways, including loss of experimental subjects (and statistical power) due to increased morbidity and mortality. In addition, results may be confounded by virus-induced clinical abnormalities, histologic lesions, alteration of physiologic parameters and responses, and interference with in vitro assays and/or destruction of primary cell cultures. Key clinical and epidemiological features of several important retroviruses are reviewed, with emphasis on viruses infecting species of macaques most commonly used as research subjects in primate toxicology studies. Examples of actual and potential confounding of toxicologic studies by retroviruses are discussed, including altered cytokine profiles in healthy STLV carriers, and clinical and pathological abnormalities induced by SRV infection. Adequate prestudy viral screening is critical to exclude retrovirus-infected primates from toxicologic research protocols and prevent potential confounding of research results.
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- Nicholas W Lerche
- Simian Retrovirus Laboratory, California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Guzman RE, Kerlin RL, Zimmerman TE. Histologic lesions in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) naturally infected with simian retrovirus type D: comparison of seropositive, virus-positive, and uninfected animals. Toxicol Pathol 1999; 27:672-7. [PMID: 10588548 DOI: 10.1177/019262339902700609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Simian retrovirus (SRV) type D is a common cause of simian acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (SAIDS), a usually fatal immunosuppressive disease of macaques. Associated gross and histologic lesions have been well described for the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) in experimental and natural infections. However, morphologic changes induced by this virus at the gross and light-microscopic level have not been documented in the cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis). In 1996, sporadic cases of anemia, weight loss, and diarrhea were noted in a colony of cynomolgus macaques in our research facility. Out of 28 animals, 24 tested positive for SRV by serology or virus isolation. Animals could mainly be classified into 1 of 2 categories: 1) positive for virus isolation but negative for SRV antibody and 2) negative for virus isolation but antibody positive. During the process of eliminating the virus from the colony, a complete postmortem examination was performed on the 24 infected animals that had to be culled. Twelve SRV-negative animals were available as controls. Minimal to mild follicular lymphoid infiltrates were seen in various organ systems in 75% of the negative animals, compared with moderate to marked infiltrates in 83% of infected animals. Lymphoid infiltrates were more common in the brain, bone marrow, and salivary gland of viremic animals and were rare to nonexistent in seropositive or negative animals. Lymphoid hyperplasia was present in 38% of the infected animals, whereas lymphoid depletion was seen in 47% of the infected animals. Overall, lesions were of greater severity in viremic animals than in virus-negative or seropositive animals. Overall, infected animals had lower, statistically significant hematocrit and lymphocyte values. Viremic animals had significantly lower hematocrit, white blood cell, lymphocyte, and neutrophil values than did controls. Only 1 out of 24 infected animals had clinical signs that were consistent with the definition of SAIDS, and none had evidence of opportunistic infections. Lesions were similar to those already reported in other species of macaques, but the absence of severe illness that was consistent with SAIDS in most viremic animals suggests that there may be a different manifestation of disease in the cynomolgus.
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- R E Guzman
- Drug Safety Evaluation, Pfizer Central Research, Groton, Connecticut 06340, USA.
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Wykrzykowska JJ, Rosenzweig M, Veazey RS, Simon MA, Halvorsen K, Desrosiers RC, Johnson RP, Lackner AA. Early regeneration of thymic progenitors in rhesus macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus. J Exp Med 1998; 187:1767-78. [PMID: 9607918 PMCID: PMC2212305 DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.11.1767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/1997] [Revised: 03/11/1998] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The thymus plays a critical role in the maturation and production of T lymphocytes and is a target of infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). Using the SIV/macaque model of AIDS, we examined the early effects of SIV on the thymus. We found that thymic infection by SIV resulted in increased apoptosis 7-14 d after infection, followed by depletion of thymocyte progenitors by day 21. A marked rebound in thymocyte progenitors occurred by day 50 and was accompanied by increased levels of cell proliferation in the thymus. Our results demonstrate a marked increase in thymic progenitor activity very early in the course of SIV infection, long before marked declines in peripheral CD4(+) T cell counts.
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- J J Wykrzykowska
- New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772, USA
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Hämmerle CH, Schiødt M, Lackner AA, Armitage GC, Daniels TE, Greenspan JS. Langerhans cells in oral mucosa of rhesus monkeys before and after infection by simian retrovirus-1 and simian immunodeficiency virus. ORAL SURGERY, ORAL MEDICINE, AND ORAL PATHOLOGY 1993; 76:742-5. [PMID: 8284080 DOI: 10.1016/0030-4220(93)90045-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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To study the influence of experimental infection with simian retrovirus-1 and simian immunodeficiency virus on the number and distribution of Langerhans cells in oral mucosa of rhesus monkeys, 10 monkeys were intravenously inoculated with simian retrovirus-1, 7 with simian immunodeficiency virus, and 2 were mock-inoculated. Biopsies were taken from gingiva and cheek pouch before infection and at 1 (simian immunodeficiency virus group only), 4, and 7 months after infection. Langerhans cells were detected in frozen sections by immunohistochemistry with monoclonal antibodies Leu-6 and HLA-DR. The mean number of Langerhans cells per surface millimeter and square millimeter of epithelium was calculated under blind conditions. The results showed no statistically significant differences in the number or distribution of Langerhans cells in the three groups at the various time points of examination. Similarly, no differences were detected within any group over the observation period. Thus systemic infection of rhesus monkeys with either simian retrovirus-1 or simian immunodeficiency virus does not lead to a significant change in the number of Langerhans cells in oral mucosal epithelium.
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- C H Hämmerle
- Oral AIDS Center, University of California, San Francisco
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van Kuyk RW, Acevedo RA, Torres JV, Levy NB, Planelles V, Munn RJ, Unger RE, Gardner MB, Luciw PA. Characterization of rhesus macaque B-lymphoblastoid cell lines infected with simian type D retrovirus. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1991; 7:899-909. [PMID: 1662056 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1991.7.899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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A simian type D retrovirus designated SRV induces a fatal immunosuppressive disease in rhesus macaques. This syndrome shows many clinical similarities to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals. To investigate the mechanisms of immune dysfunction in SRV infection, we have focused on the interactions of SRV serotype 1 (SRV-1) with macaque B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (B-LCL). Procedures were optimized for establishing B-LCL by immortalization of macaque B lymphocytes with rhesus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). These cell lines express B-cell surface markers, secrete immunoglobulins of the IgG or IgM isotypes, and release EBV which transforms monkey B cells. In vitro cultures of B-LCL supported replication of SRV-1. Several B-LCL infected with SRV-1 showed downregulation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II antigen expression whereas levels of MHC class I antigen remained unchanged. Infection of B-LCL with SRV-1 did not alter the level of secreted immunoglobulin. Rhesus EBV was also used to obtain B-LCL from macaques infected with SRV-1; these cell lines were found to release infectious SRV-1. Investigations on the interactions of SRV-1 with B cells will be useful for elucidating mechanisms involved in the immunopathogenesis of primate retroviruses.
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- R W van Kuyk
- Department of Medical Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616
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Heyes MP, Mefford IN, Quearry BJ, Dedhia M, Lackner A. Increased ratio of quinolinic acid to kynurenic acid in cerebrospinal fluid of D retrovirus-infected rhesus macaques: relationship to clinical and viral status. Ann Neurol 1990; 27:666-75. [PMID: 2163238 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410270614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Increased concentrations of excitotoxin quinolinic acid in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are associated with infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) and have been implicated in the pathogenesis of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) dementia complex. In the present study, inoculation of macaques with D/1/California, an immunosuppressive serotype 1 type D retrovirus, was associated with acute and chronic increases in CSF and serum quinolinic acid concentrations in macaques that had developed SAIDS, a simian disease analogous to AIDS in humans--particularly macaques with demonstrable opportunistic infections. Kynurenic acid, an antagonist of excitatory amino acid receptors as well as the excitotoxic effects of quinolinic acid, was also increased in the CSF of SAIDS macaques, but to a significantly lesser degree than was quinolinic acid (kynurenic acid, 1.8-fold; quinolinic acid, 15.6-fold). CSF quinolinic acid, but not kynurenic acid, was also increased in viremic macaques with SAIDS-related complex (2.4-fold) and asymptomatic virus positive carriers (3.4-fold). Macaques that had recovered from D/1/California infection and were antibody positive and virus negative had normal CSF quinolinic acid and kynurenic acid concentrations. Increased activity of indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase, the first enzyme of the kynurenine pathway, was indicated in the macaques with SAIDS by reduced serum L-tryptophan and elevated serum L-kynurenine concentrations. Macaques infected with D/1/California may provide a primate model for investigation of the mechanisms involved in increases in CSF quinolinic acid in retrovirus and other infectious diseases, including HIV-1. It remains to be determined whether the increased CSF quinolinic acid concentrations and the increased ratio of quinolinic acid to kynurenic acid have neurological significance or are a useful "marker" of infection.
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- M P Heyes
- Section on Analytical Biochemistry, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Lackner AA, Moore PF, Marx PA, Munn RJ, Gardner MB, Lowenstine LJ. Immunohistochemical Localization of Type D Retrovirus Serotype 1 in the Digestive Tract of Rhesus Monkeys With Simian AIDS. J Med Primatol 1990. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.1990.tb00440.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Andrew A. Lackner
- California Primate Research CenterUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
- Department of Veterinary PathologyUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
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- Department of Veterinary PathologyUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
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- California Primate Research CenterUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
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- Department of Medical PathologyUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
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