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In neonatal mice the A7(74) and L10 strains of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) are virulent. In 3- to 4-week-old mice the L10 strain is virulent, the A7(74) strain is avirulent. Following intraperitoneal inoculation of 3- to 4-week-old mice both strains produce a transient plasma viremia. This is cleared by IgM antibodies. IgG antibodies of all subclasses are produced. The distribution of viral RNA in the brain as determined by autoradiographic analysis of in situ hybridizations shows that in all cases virus is first apparent as small foci of infected cells around cerebral capillaries. In both neonatal and 3- to 4-week-old mice infected with L10 or neonatal mice infected with A7(74), infection spreads rapidly from the original foci to infect large areas throughout the brain. Both neurons and glial cells are infected resulting in pycnosis and death of the animals. In the brains of 3- to 4-week-old mice infected with A7(74) virus there is little spread from the original perivascular foci. Again neurons and oligodendrocytes are infected but cellular destruction is minimal. The same pattern of A7(74) infection is observed in 3- to 4-week-old athymic nu/nu mice and mice with severe combined immunodeficiency, indicating that failure to spread is not related to specific immune responses. Furthermore, in nu/nu and SCID mice the small restricted foci of A7(74) infection persist. Comparison of the replication of these two viruses by electronmicroscopy shows that although A7(74) virus replicates completely in the neurons of neonatal mice, the virus is unable to bud from the neurons of 3- to 4-week-old mice and aggregates of viral RNA and capsid accumulate. We conclude that there is an age-related restriction of A7(74) replication in mouse neurons and that this restriction is not associated with the maturity of virus-specific immune responses but probably reflects age-related changes in neurons.
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- J K Fazakerley
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Balluz IM, Glasgow GM, Killen HM, Mabruk MJ, Sheahan BJ, Atkins GJ. Virulent and avirulent strains of Semliki Forest virus show similar cell tropism for the murine central nervous system but differ in the severity and rate of induction of cytolytic damage. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 1993; 19:233-9. [PMID: 8395026 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1993.tb00433.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The pathogenicity of the avirulent, demyelinating A7 strain of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) and the virulent SFV4 strain (derived from an infectious clone) for the central nervous system of adult BALB/c mice following intranasal infection was compared. The techniques used included immunocytochemistry using anti-SFV antibody and antibodies to cell markers, in situ hybridization (ISH) using a biotinylated cDNA probe specific for SFV, and immunocytochemistry/ISH double labelling. Whereas SFV4 was lethal at 4 days post-infection, A7-infected mice appeared normal at all times. Neuronal necrosis in the pyriform cortex was present in both infections, but developed sooner and was more severe following infection with SFV4 than with A7. Intact neurons and putative oligodendrocytes contained viral RNA and virus-specific antigen in SFV4 infected mice; viral RNA but not virus-specific antigen was detected in similar cells in A7-infected mice. These results confirm that SFV4 and A7 share similar cell tropisms for the murine central nervous system, but differ in the severity and rate of development of cytolytic damage. Intranasal infection is an efficient monitoring system for studies of the molecular basis of pathogenicity of SFV infection in mice.
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- I M Balluz
- Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Szekely L, Jin P, Jiang WQ, Rosén A, Wiman KG, Klein G, Ringertz N. Position-dependent nuclear accumulation of the retinoblastoma (RB) protein during in vitro myogenesis. J Cell Physiol 1993; 155:313-22. [PMID: 7683311 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041550212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The expression of the retinoblastoma (RB) protein has been studied during in vitro muscle differentiation by immunofluorescence staining with three different antibodies against RB protein. Proliferating mononucleate L6 rat myoblasts showed a low level of expression. As cells began to enter a nonreplicating G0 state, the cell population became heterogeneous. Some nonreplicating cells showed a high level of expression. Nuclei at the two ends of myotubes were strongly positive, whereas centrally located nuclei showed low RB expression. Overexpression of the human RB protein in rat L6 myotubes from a Semliki forest virus (SFV)-based, transient expression vector produced a similar picture. Terminally located nuclei expressed human RB at a much higher level than did the centrally located nuclei. The results suggest that individual nuclei with a multinucleated syncytium may undergo position-dependent specialization.
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- L Szekely
- Department of Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ficken MD, Wages DP, Guy JS, Quinn JA, Emory WH. High mortality of domestic turkeys associated with Highlands J virus and eastern equine encephalitis virus infections. Avian Dis 1993; 37:585-90. [PMID: 8395810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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High mortality occurred in two flocks of commercial turkey hens placed in southern North Carolina in fall 1991. Daily mortality peaked at 3.19% in Flock 1 and 3.79% in Flock 2. Clinical signs included restlessness, somnolence, vocalization, and acute death. Gross lesions included atrophy of the bursa of Fabricius, thymus, and spleen, and watery intestinal contents. Microscopic changes included moderate to marked lymphocyte necrosis and depletion in the bursa, thymus, and spleen, widely scattered necrosis of pancreatic acinar cells, and mild villous atrophy and fusion in the jejunum and ileum with cuboidal to low columnar epithelial cells covering the villous tips. In Flock 1, at 27 days of age, reovirus and picornavirus particles were detected in the feces. One week later, togavirus-like particles were observed in fecal contents, and two of seven serum samples showed seroconversion to Highlands J virus. Eleven days later, five of six serum samples were positive for antibodies against Highlands J virus, with a fourfold increase in the geometric mean titer. In Flock 2, seroconversion to eastern equine encephalitis virus was observed in four of 10 serum samples 11 days after the onset of clinical signs. Based on the above observations, it is suspected that these alphaviruses were the cause of the clinical syndrome.
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- M D Ficken
- Department of Food Animal and Equine Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27606
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Guy JS, Ficken MD, Barnes HJ, Wages DP, Smith LG. Experimental infection of young turkeys with eastern equine encephalitis virus and highlands J virus. Avian Dis 1993; 37:389-95. [PMID: 8395798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Depression, somnolence, and increased mortality were observed in 2-week-old turkeys inoculated intramuscularly with either eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus or Highlands J (HJ) virus. Mortality rates in EEE virus- and HJ virus-inoculated turkeys were 7/30 (23%) and 9/30 (27%), respectively; no sham-inoculated controls died. Both EEE virus- and HJ virus-inoculated turkeys developed viremia that lasted 2 days; peak mean titers were 5.5 and 3.2 log10 plaque-forming units per ml of blood, respectively. Pathologic changes in both EEE virus- and HJ virus-inoculated turkeys consisted primarily of multifocal necrosis in the heart, kidney, and pancreas, and lymphoid necrosis and depletion in the thymus, spleen, and bursa of Fabricius. The findings indicate that EEE virus and HJ virus are pathogenic for young turkeys.
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- J S Guy
- Department of Microbiology, Pathology, and Parasitology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27606
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Li XD, Qiu FX, Yang H, Rao YN, Calisher CH. Isolation of Getah virus from mosquitos collected on Hainan Island, China, and results of a serosurvey. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 1992; 23:730-4. [PMID: 1338481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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An isolate of Getah virus was obtained from Culex mosquitos collected in Mao'an Village, Baoting County, Hainan Province, China, in 1964. The virus (strain M-1) replicated in laboratory-bred Aedes aegypti and Cx. fatigans (= quinquefasciatus), and was transmitted by laboratory-bred Ae. albopictus to healthy newborn albino mice. Skeletal muscles of newborn albino mice experimentally infected with the virus showed degeneration, atrophy, necrosis, and inflammatory changes of muscle fibers. Antibody prevalence in humans and animals ranged from 10.3% by neutralization tests of samples from healthy people in 1979 to 26.4% by CF tests of samples from people with febrile illnesses in 1982. The high prevalence of antibody in pigs, horses, and goats (17.6% to 37.5%) indicated that infection with Getah or a closely related virus is relatively common in domestic animals.
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- X D Li
- Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine Institute of Virology, Beijing
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Dalgard DW, Hardy RJ, Pearson SL, Pucak GJ, Quander RV, Zack PM, Peters CJ, Jahrling PB. Combined simian hemorrhagic fever and Ebola virus infection in cynomolgus monkeys. Lab Anim Sci 1992; 42:152-7. [PMID: 1318446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Simian hemorrhagic fever (SHF) virus and a new strain of Ebola virus were isolated concurrently in recently imported cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) being maintained in a quarantine facility. Ebola virus had never been isolated in the U.S. previously and was presumed to be highly pathogenic for humans. A chronology of events including measures taken to address the public health concerns is presented. The clinicopathologic features of the disease were abrupt anorexia, splenomegaly, marked elevations of lactate dehydrogenase, alanine aminotransferase, and aspartate aminotransferase, with less prominent elevations of blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, and other serum chemistry parameters. Histologically, fibrin deposition, hemorrhage, and necrosis of lymphoid cells and reticular mononuclear phagocytes were present in the spleens of SHF and of Ebola virus-infected animals. Intravascular fibrin thrombi and hemorrhage were also present in the renal medulla and multifocally in the gastrointestinal tract. Necrosis of lymphoid and epithelial cells was occasionally noted in the gastrointestinal tract. The histopathologic findings considered specific for Ebola virus infection include hepatocellular necrosis, necrosis of the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex, and interstitial pneumonia, all of which were generally associated with the presence of 1 to 4 mu intracytoplasmic amphophilic inclusion bodies. The disease spread within rooms despite discontinuation of all direct contact with animals, and droplet or aerosol transmission was suspected. Antibody to Ebola virus developed in animal handlers but no clinical disease was noted, suggesting a less virulent strain of virus.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Wohlsein P, Trautwein G, Depner KR, Hübschle OJ, Liess B. Pathomorphological and immunohistological findings in progeny of goats experimentally infected with pestiviruses. Zentralbl Veterinarmed B 1992; 39:1-9. [PMID: 1316022 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.1992.tb01131.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A total of 25 pregnant goats without neutralizing antibodies against BVD virus were inoculated with two different pestivirus isolates at eight different stages of gestation. In both infection groups, various malformations were observed in fetuses and neonates. In three twins with neutralizing antibodies against BVD virus leukoencephalomalacia occurred, characterized by gelatinous transformation in the cerebral hemispheres. These lesions were comparable to alterations described in alternative pathology of Border disease in sheep. Although the immunohistological findings are characteristic for immunological tolerance and viral persistence, viable offspring persistently infected with pestivirus was not observed.
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- P Wohlsein
- Institute of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany
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Hayashi T, Ozaki M, Onodera T, Ami Y, Yamamoto H. Macrophage function in the acute phase of lactic dehydrogenase virus-infection of mice: suppression of superoxide anion production in normal mouse peritoneal macrophages by interferon-alpha in vitro. J Comp Pathol 1992; 106:183-93. [PMID: 1317890 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9975(92)90047-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The effect of interferon (IFN)-alpha on the release of superoxide anions (O2-) by normal mouse macrophages (PEM) was examined. Sera from LDV-infected mice at 1 day, but not at 7 days post-infection, suppressed the O2- release by PEM. When PEM were exposed in vitro for 24 h to IFN-alpha, their capacity to release O2- was significantly suppressed. Progressive suppression of O2- release with increasing IFN-alpha concentration was observed. These results suggest that IFN-alpha in the circulation may be one of several suppressive factors on macrophage function in the early phase of infection and IFN-alpha may play a modulatory role in inflammation and immunity.
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- T Hayashi
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, University of Yamaguchi, Japan
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Glasgow GM, Sheahan BJ, Atkins GJ, Wahlberg JM, Salminen A, Liljeström P. Two mutations in the envelope glycoprotein E2 of Semliki Forest virus affecting the maturation and entry patterns of the virus alter pathogenicity for mice. Virology 1991; 185:741-8. [PMID: 1660202 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90545-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The prototype strain of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) of known sequence and virus produced by the cDNA clone derived from it were lethal following intranasal (i.n.) infection of 40-day-old and intraperitoneal (i.p.) infection of pregnant BALB/c mice; this lethality was related to neuronal necrosis in the central nervous system (CNS). We conclude that the virulence of the prototype strain, and virus from the cDNA clone derived from it, is similar to that of L10 (the original SFV isolate). The effects of two mutations in the p62 envelope protein region of the clone were determined. Substitution of Glu for Lys at position 162 (mut64) extended the mean time of death following i.n. inoculation of 40-day-old mice. Pregnant mice infected with this virus survived but lethal infection of some fetuses did occur. Substitution of Leu for Arg at position 66 (mL), the cleavage site of the E2 and E3 proteins, results in the production of particles containing uncleaved p62. These particles were less virulent than the prototype strain when inoculated i.n. and induced immunity to virulent SFV challenge. The virus also induced the formation of multifocal glial nodules in the CNS of surviving mice. The differences in pathogenicity between the two mutants and the virulent parental virus are probably related to differences in the efficiency of virus multiplication in infected mice. The mut64 mutation attenuated the virus and allowed survival of pregnant mice infected i.p. so that the effects of fetal infection could be detected. The mL mutation allowed survival of i.n.-infected mice so that the later effects of virus multiplication in the CNS could be assessed. In the former case, this is probably a result of reduced virus release, whereas in the latter case it is due to inefficient entry of host cells. The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
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- G M Glasgow
- Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Gaedigk-Nitschko K, Schlesinger MJ. Site-directed mutations in Sindbis virus E2 glycoprotein's cytoplasmic domain and the 6K protein lead to similar defects in virus assembly and budding. Virology 1991; 183:206-14. [PMID: 1647069 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90133-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Site-directed mutagenesis was used to obtain four mutants with amino acid replacements in the cytoplasmic domain of the E2 glycoprotein and three with replacements in the 6K protein of Sindbis virus. All but one of these mutants yielded progeny virus after transfection of chicken embryo fibroblasts with RNA prepared by in vitro transcription of the virus cDNA; however, even this nonproducer mutant made virus structural proteins in the transfected cells. The other six mutants divided into two groups based on growth in chicken embryo fibroblasts. One group of four mutants (two in E2 and two in 6K) was indistinguishable from wild-type in formation of infectious virus in avian cells while the other group, consisting of two mutants, grew significantly slower. All six mutants grew slower than the parental wild-type virus in mosquito cells. In avian cells, all mutants produced extracellular particles at a slower rate than the wild-type and many of the particles contained multiple nucleocapsids, based on electron microscopy and kinetics of thermal inactivation. One of the E2 mutants with a cysteine changed to alanine and the 6K mutant with four cysteines replaced were deficient in covalent-bound palmitic acid. Two mutants with changes near the signalase cleavage sites between E2 and 6K and between 6K and E1 appeared to be defective in proteolytic processing. Despite individual differences, all of these mutants and the two previously described produced similar phenotypes in which multicored infectious virus particles were released more slowly from mosquito cells than from avian cells.
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- K Gaedigk-Nitschko
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Hayashi T, Iwata H, Hasegawa T, Ozaki M, Yamamoto H, Onodera T. Decrease in neutrophil migration induced by endotoxin and suppression of interleukin-1 production by macrophages in lactic dehydrogenase virus-infected mice. J Comp Pathol 1991; 104:161-70. [PMID: 1650801 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9975(08)80099-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Neutrophil (PMN) migration into the peritoneal cavity after intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), chemotactic activity of PMN, interleukin-1 (IL-1) production by macrophages (M phi) and its ability to attract PMN in mice chronically infected with lactic dehydrogenase virus (LDV) were compared with those in uninfected control mice. PMN migration into the peritoneal cavity decreased in infected mice when LPS was injected intraperitoneally. PMN chemotactic activity did not show any difference following infection. To assess the mechanism of this decreased PMN migration, IL-1 production, which is responsible for PMN attraction, was studied in LDV-infected mice. IL-1 production by M phi derived from infected mice decreased and its ability to attract PMN was weak. IL-1 production by M phi from control and infected mice increased after treatment by indomethacin and LPS. PMN migration into the peritoneal cavity increased after treatment with indomethacin and LPS in both control and infected mice. However, the rate of increase of IL-1 production and PMN migration was greater in infected mice. These results suggest that the excess activation of cyclo-oxygenase-derived products (prostaglandins) in infected mice might be responsible for the suppression of IL-1 production by M phi, resulting in decreased PMN migration induced by endotoxin.
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- T Hayashi
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Yamaguchi, Japan
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Effects of cold or isolation stress on brain penetration by the neurovirulent noninvasive Sindbis virus strain (SVN) were studied in mice. SVN injected intracerebrally (i.c.) causes acute encephalitis and kills adult mice but is unable to invade the brain and kill when injected intraperitoneally (i.p.). Mice inoculated i.p. with SVN were exposed to cold stress or were singly housed. Both stress patterns induced SVN encephalitis and death in 42% (cold) and 37% (isolation) of the tested mice. No death was observed in the control injected mice. Brain virus levels were found to be more than 10(6) PFU in all dying mice. No virus was detected in the control group brains. The virus that was isolated from the brains of moribund mice demonstrated no changes in neuroinvasive and neurovirulent properties. We suggest a stress induced blood-brain-barrier opening with subsequent virus entrance as the mechanism of stress induced SVN encephalitis.
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- D Ben-Nathan
- Dept. of Virology, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona
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Vargin VV, Semenov BF, Stobetsky VI. T-cells of virus-infected mice produce a lymphokine which activates the autoreactivity of intact mouse lymphocytes. Acta Virol 1991; 35:94-7. [PMID: 1683123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The role of lymphokines was estimated in induction of autoreactive T-cells during Langat virus infection in mice. It was shown that in vitro cultured splenocytes from virus-infected animal containing autoreactive lymphocytes (ARL) spontaneously produce a lymphokine which is capable to activate the autoreactivity of lymphocytes derived from the spleen of intact syngeneic mice. The capacity of this lymphokine to activate the autoreactivity of acceptor cells within 2 hr was demonstrated by local graft-versus host reaction (GVHR) in the donor-recipient system. According to their surface markers (theta-antigen expression, absence of immunoglobulins) the lymphokine activating autoreactivity (LAA) producers may belong to T-lymphocyte population. Autoreactivity could be induced by the lymphokine only if the LAA producers and acceptors were compatible by the major histocompatibility complex antigens.
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- V V Vargin
- Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides AMS U.S.S.R., Moscow
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Smyth JM, Sheahan BJ, Atkins GJ. Multiplication of virulent and demyelinating Semliki Forest virus in the mouse central nervous system: consequences in BALB/c and SJL mice. J Gen Virol 1990; 71 ( Pt 11):2575-83. [PMID: 2174955 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-71-11-2575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The sites of multiplication in the mouse central nervous system (CNS) of the virulent L10 strain of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) and the L10-SFV-derived demyelinating M9 mutant were determined using both BALB/c and SJL mouse strains. In situ hybridization (ISH), using a cRNA probe to an SFV non-structural sequence, and immunogold-silver staining (IGSS), using polyclonal anti-SFV rabbit IgG, were the techniques utilized. For L10-SFV, viral RNA and antigen were detected in neurons and glial cells of both mouse strains. For BALB/c mice infected with M9-SFV, both neuronal and glial cell infection was less extensive than that obtained with L10. ISH or IGSS were generally not sensitive enough to detect viral RNA and antigen, respectively, in M9-SFV-infected SJL mice. M9-SFV multiplied to a similar titre in primary cultures of glial cells derived from either BALB/c or SJL mice. Following infection with M9-SFV, small plaques of demyelination in the CNS and occasional small aggregates of mononuclear leukocytes in the leptomeninges persisted for up to 12 months in SJL mice but not BALB/c mice. This was not associated with detectable persistence of infectious virus, viral antigen or viral RNA in the CNS.
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- J M Smyth
- Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Two experiments were carried out in which 37 healthy newborn goat kids were inoculated with a non-cytopathic ovine (BDV) or a cytopathic bovine pestivirus (BVDV) by intramuscular or intracerebral injection. No kids showed signs of disease or gross lesions which could be attributed to these viruses, but inoculated kids had lower mean growth rates than the controls. Significant histological changes in the CNS of 14 kids were restricted largely to the white matter and consisted mainly of hypercellular foci comprising microglial/histiocytic cells and mild perivascular infiltration by mononuclear cells. Varying degrees of infiltration of the myocardium by lymphocytes and plasma cells were observed. All kids remained negative for neutralizing antibodies against pestivirus until 2 to 3 weeks after infection. Titres increased during the following weeks. Pestiviruses were recovered from kids necropsied 10 days after inoculation, but not from any kids killed 20 days after inoculation or later. Non-cytopathic virus was isolated from various tissues of four kids that had received BDV and three kids that had been given BVDV. Cytopathic viruses were not recovered from any kids. Mean white blood cell counts in all kids were within the normal range at 4 and 8 weeks after inoculation. The lymphocyte response to stimulation by phytohaemagglutinin was significantly increased on both sampling occasions in the BDV-inoculated kids, while in the BVDV-inoculated animals, a similar increase was seen only at 8 weeks.
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- T Løken
- National Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway
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Hiruma M, Ide S, Hohdatsu T, Yamagishi H, Tanaka Y, Fujisaki Y. Polymyositis in mice experimentally inoculated with Getah virus. Nihon Juigaku Zasshi 1990; 52:767-72. [PMID: 2167996 DOI: 10.1292/jvms1939.52.767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mice inoculated intracerebrally with parent, large-plaque (LP) and small-plaque (SP) strains of Kanagawa strain of Getah virus showed clinically recumbency and paralysis. The LP strain caused recumbency more rapidly and killed mice more early after inoculation than the parent and SP strains. Microscopically, skeletal muscles of the whole body were involved showing degenerative or inflammatory changes. In mice inoculated with the parent or SP strains, there were degeneration and necrosis of the muscle fibers with inflammatory cell infiltration and regenerative reaction. The lesions were particularly conspicuous in muscles of the hind legs. In mice inoculated with the LP strain, most of the muscle fibers revealed degeneration and necrosis, but reactive changes were poor. In addition, the periosteum and muscular connective tissue were thickened with karyorrhexis. Electron microscopically, virus particles were recognized mainly in cisternae of sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle fibers of mice inoculated with the LP strain, while they were rare in those of animals injected with the parent and SP strains. From these finding, it was suggested that Kanagawa strain of Getah virus has the virulence to skeletal muscles of mice.
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- M Hiruma
- Research Center for Veterinary Science, Kitasato Institute, Chiba, Japan
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Mehta S, Pathak S, Webb HE. Induction of membrane proliferation in mouse CNS by gold sodium thiomalate with reference to increased virulence of the avirulent Semliki Forest virus. Biosci Rep 1990; 10:271-9. [PMID: 2171692 DOI: 10.1007/bf01117243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Separation of smooth membrane vesicles from whole mouse brain by isopycnic centrifugation in discontinuous sucrose density gradients show an increased membrane proliferation in gold sodium thiomalate (GSTM) treated mice. Induction of membrane proliferation by GSTM seems to be an important factor in converting the avirulent Semliki Forest virus infection into a lethal one.
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- S Mehta
- Neurovirology Unit, Rayne Institute, United Medical School, Guy's Hospital, London
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Atkins GJ, Sheahan BJ, Mooney DA. Pathogenicity of Semliki Forest virus for the rat central nervous system and primary rat neural cell cultures: possible implications for the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 1990; 16:57-68. [PMID: 2157171 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1990.tb00932.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The neurovirulent L10 strain of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) causes extensive neuronal damage in the central nervous system (CNS) of infected rats, and is probably the cause of death. The avirulent A7 and M9 strains do not cause extensive neuronal damage, but do induce immune-mediated CNS demyelination. In primary CNS cell cultures derived from rats, L10 multiplies more rapidly in neurons than avirulent strains, but infection with both virulent and avirulent strains causes depletion of oligodendrocytes from mixed glial cell cultures. It is proposed that the immune-mediated demyelination, which follows infection with avirulent strains, is induced by phagocytosis of myelin debris from infected oligodendrocytes, and the presentation of antigens derived from such debris to T-helper lymphocytes. Based on these and previous results, a scheme for the pathogenicity of defined strains of SFV is proposed. The applicability of this scheme to the understanding of human demyelinating disease such as multiple sclerosis is discussed.
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- G J Atkins
- Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Mabruk MJ, Glasglow GM, Flack AM, Folan JC, Bannigan JG, Smyth JM, O'Sullivan MA, Sheahan BJ, Atkins GJ. Effect of infection with the ts22 mutant of Semliki Forest virus on development of the central nervous system in the fetal mouse. J Virol 1989; 63:4027-33. [PMID: 2548012 PMCID: PMC251000 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.9.4027-4033.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The A7 strain of Semliki Forest virus induces rapid fetal death in pregnant mice, whereas the ts22 mutant derived from it is teratogenic for a proportion of fetuses. Both A7 and ts22 induce viremia and infect the central nervous systems and fetuses of pregnant mice. Using immunogold-silver staining, a cDNA probe for a Semliki Forest virus nonstructural sequence, and a riboprobe derived from the same sequence, we showed that the skin and musculoskeletal systems of fetuses from mothers infected with ts22 were often heavily infected but the central nervous systems were not labeled before day 17 of pregnancy. Damage to the neural tube, including open-neural-tube defects, was detected in fetuses following infection of the mother at days 8 and 10 of pregnancy with both A7 and ts22. For ts22, neural tube damage induced by fetal infection before day 17 of pregnancy appeared to be indirect and caused by virus infection of mesenchymal cells surrounding the developing neural tube.
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- M J Mabruk
- Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Brady BE, Gerard D, Wust CJ, Lozzio CB, Brown A. Involvement of cytoplasmic membranes in the non-lytic infection of K-562 cells by Semliki Forest virus. Eur J Cell Biol 1989; 48:203-11. [PMID: 2545448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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An analysis of the human leukemia cell line, K-562, infected with Semliki Forest virus, has been made with transmission electron microscopy. In contrast to the usual surface budding of the enveloped virus on the plasma membrane of vertebrate cells leading to cytolysis within 20 h, K-562 cells do not show surface budding, and the cells remain intact for periods of several months. Several unusual features of the infection include: 1) the rough endoplasmic reticulum arranges early into continuous perinuclear chains; 2) during the time of virus replication and release, the nucleocapsids aggregate on the cytoplasmic side of internal vesicles in the region of the cell where the Golgi complex is normally located; and 3) during this same time period, the vesicles are seen to contain enveloped virions and rod-like formations, a result suggesting that budding has occurred into these vesicles. Viruses are presumably released from the cell as these vesicles fuse with the plasma membrane. By 12 days post-infection and thereafter, the intact cells show electron-dense aggregates of chromatin, large vacuoles and lipid inclusions throughout the cytoplasm, and only a few virion-containing vesicles.
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- B E Brady
- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-0845
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Virus-induced vesicles evolved early in the Kunjin virus replication cycle around 9 to 10 h p.i. just before the end of the latent period in infected Vero cells. About 2 h following the appearance of the vesicles, microtubule paracrystals were also formed. These two virus-induced structures seemed interlinked and have essential roles in Kunjin virus replication. A viral protein NS3 was found to be associated with the microtubule component of the cells. When vinblastine sulphate was added to the cells immediately after infection, formation of the paracrystals was delayed by two hours, and the affiliation of NS3 protein was also observed to be rearranged.
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- M L Ng
- Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore
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Karmysheva BI, Mironova LL, Ovsiannikova NV, Popova VD. [Changes in cellular microfilaments in viral infection]. Vopr Virusol 1988; 33:711-7. [PMID: 2854678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The effect of disorders in actin microfilament polymerization by cytochalasin B (CB) on the development of cytopathic changes was studied in two models. CB in concentrations of 0.1-1.0 microgram/ml enhanced 3-5-fold the formation of symplasts in a line of kidney cells from green monkey 4647 infected with carnivore distemper virus and inhibited this process in higher concentrations (2.5-5.0 micrograms/ml). The addition of CB in concentrations 5-10 micrograms/ml into the medium of a line of Chinese striped hamster cells infected with Sindbis virus led to disorders in the permeability of plasmolemma and destruction of cells although virus reproduction and production of virus antigens remained uninvolved. The above results not only demonstrate the role of actin microfilaments in the development of cytopathic lesions caused by paramyxo- and alphaviruses but also allow the assessment of separate stages of these processes.
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Fazakerley JK, Khalili-Shirazi A, Webb HE. Semliki Forest virus (A7[74]) infection of adult mice induces an immune-mediated demyelinating encephalomyelitis. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1988; 540:672-3. [PMID: 2849913 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb27208.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- J K Fazakerley
- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia 19104
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Terpstra C, Wensvoort G. Natural infections of pigs with bovine viral diarrhoea virus associated with signs resembling swine fever. Res Vet Sci 1988; 45:137-42. [PMID: 2848298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Between 1976 and 1985 while using immunofluorescence in the laboratory diagnosis of swine fever (SF), 13 incidents of bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) infection were detected in the Netherlands. Ultimate differentiation between swine fever virus (SFV) and BVDV was based on herd evidence supported by comparative antibody studies on sera from pigs inoculated with the isolate and from contact pigs in the herd of origin, using reference strains of SFV and BVDV. Recently differentiation of SFV and BVDV has been facilitated by typing the isolates with monoclonal antibodies. Signs suspicious of SF were observed in pigs two to 16 weeks old and were always confined to animals of one litter. In most cases the affected litter died out gradually although once an animal recovered. Stillbirth and neonatal death as well as the late onset of disease and its limitation to a single litter in a herd suggested a congenital route of infection. Although transplacental infection of BVDV in pigs has been reported before, these cases are believed to be the first in which natural BVDV infections could be associated with clinical signs and pathological lesions indistinguishable from those observed in chronic SF.
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- C Terpstra
- Central Veterinary Institute, Department of Virology, Lelystad, The Netherlands
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Illavia SJ, Webb HE. The pathological effect on the central nervous system of mice following single and repeated infections of the demyelinating A7(74) strain of Semliki Forest virus. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 1988; 14:207-20. [PMID: 2841621 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1988.tb00882.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The avirulent strain A7(74) of Semliki Forest virus was inoculated intraperitoneally into mice at weekly intervals for 7 weeks. Pathological, virological and serological studies were carried out twice weekly, after each infecting dose. Similar studies were performed on mice that had been given repeated inoculations at 2, 3 or 4 weekly intervals as were a group of control mice given a single dose of SFV. Results showed grossly enhanced central nervous system lesions, in particular the perivascular cuffing and demyelination, after the 2nd and 3rd weekly inoculation. With further injections there was no increase in severity of the lesions and by the eighth inoculation the pathological changes in the brain appeared to have recovered. The maximum and most persistent damage to the brain was seen after the 2nd and 3rd weekly inoculations. As the interval between two SFV inoculations was increased, the lesions in the central nervous system were reduced and protection increased. Virus in the blood was only detectable after the first inoculation and brain virus after the first and second inoculations. Peak IgG antibody levels were seen on day 46 after a single inoculation and day 35 in the multiple inoculations. It was concluded that repeated inoculations of SFV do not produce a relapsing demyelinating disease, but the 7th and 14th day inoculations do enhance the lesions which are seen to persist after the inoculation on the 21st day. In spite of the gross pathological changes inflicted, the brain damage appears to recover.
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- S J Illavia
- Neurovirology Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, United Medical School of Guy's Hospital, London
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BALB/c mice were irradiated with 350 R and injected with mouse spinal cord homogenate (MSCH) in complete Freund's adjuvant. Only 15-30% of these animals developed signs of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) at 21-28 days after inoculation. Intraperitoneal infection with the non-lethal A7 strain of Semliki forest virus (SFV) 7 days after sensitization reduced the mean appearance time of the EAE symptoms to 14 days and the number of animals with clinical EAE increased up to 70%. In contrast, virus inoculation 10 days before induction of EAE decreased significantly the incidence of clinical EAE in both BALB/c and SJL mice. Demyelination with increased cellularity, presence of macrophages, stripping of myelin from the axons and sparing of oligodendrocytes was observed in spinal cords of animals at days 13-16 after induction of EAE and subsequent virus infection. No demyelination was seen in specimens taken at the same time from mice inoculated with MSCH or SFV alone. Combined MSCH and virus inoculations induced changes in the general immune response which may be one of the major reasons for the increase or decrease in demyelination in this model.
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- L X Wu
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Amor S, Webb HE. CNS pathogenesis following a dual viral infection with Semliki Forest (alphavirus) and Langat (flavivirus). Br J Exp Pathol 1988; 69:197-208. [PMID: 2837265 PMCID: PMC2013224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Mice inoculated intraperitoneally with the alphavirus Semliki Forest were protected against a subsequent challenge with the flavivirus Langat. The protection was seen as a reduction in the Langat virus titres, mortality index and percentage deaths. The severity of the brain pathology was greater in the simultaneously infected mice, or when the time interval between administration of the viruses was 7 days, compared to that seen following a single infection of either Semliki Forest or Langat virus. When the time interval was greater than 14 days the severity of the histopathological lesions were reduced. Two factors were considered to be of possible importance in the protection afforded by the original alphavirus. Either persistence of the alphavirus interfering with the challenge flavivirus or cross-reactive immunity arising from a common host cell membrane derived glycolipid component present in both viral envelopes. This latter phenomenon could be important as anti-glycolipid activity present at 14 days after the first virus increased significantly after challenge with the second virus.
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- S Amor
- Neurovirology Unit, Rayne Institute, United Medical Schools, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
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Virus recovery from brain cultures of mice infected with either Semliki Forest and/or Langat depended on the time interval between inoculation of either virus. Mixed infections may alter the course of a disease.
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- S Amor
- Department of Neurovirology, Rayne Institute, United Medical School of Guys, London, United Kingdom
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Jackson AC, Moench TR, Griffin DE, Johnson RT. The pathogenesis of spinal cord involvement in the encephalomyelitis of mice caused by neuroadapted Sindbis virus infection. J Transl Med 1987; 56:418-23. [PMID: 3031369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Weanling mice develop an acute encephalomyelitis with high mortality after intracerebral inoculation of neuroadapted Sindbis virus. The mice develop kyphoscoliosis and hindlimb paralysis. Immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization studies have demonstrated virus in the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord. Ventral horn cells are prominently infected, providing an anatomical basis for the clinical poliomyelitis. A novel route of spread of inoculated virus within the central nervous system has been found. The virus enters the ventricular system, and then travels caudally in the central canal of the spinal cord where ependymal cells are infected. The virus subsequently spreads into the gray matter. The distribution of virus in the spinal cord is likely dependent both on variations in the susceptibility of neural cells and on this route of entry and subsequent spread.
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Fazakerley JK, Webb HE. Cyclosporine enhances virally induced T-cell-mediated demyelination. The effect of cyclosporine on a demyelinating virus infection. J Neurol Sci 1987; 78:35-50. [PMID: 3033157 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(87)90076-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Semliki Forest virus infection of adult mice results in a demyelinating meningoencephalomyelitis. Demyelination does not result from direct viral damage but from the activity of T lymphocytes. We have studied the effect of the immunosuppressant cyclosporine (Cs) on the outcome of this infection. Cs had no effect when given 5 days after the infection, and little effect when given 4 h after infection. When the Cs was given 48 h before infection there was a prolongation of the blood and brain virus titres, and a reduction in some mice of serum IgG anti-viral antibody synthesis, but an increase in the severity of the CNS inflammatory response and the demyelination. Consideration of these findings along with measurement of Cs levels in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid suggests that this drug does not cross the blood brain barrier.
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Fazakerley JK, Webb HE. Semliki Forest virus induced, immune mediated demyelination: the effect of irradiation. Br J Exp Pathol 1987; 68:101-13. [PMID: 3028463 PMCID: PMC2012988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Intraperitoneal infection with the avirulent A7(74) strain of the alphavirus Semliki Forest virus (SFV) induces an immune mediated demyelinating encephalomyelitis. The blood and brain virus titres, the serum antibody titres and the histopathological changes in the brains of normal mice and mice immunosuppressed with 5.0 or 8.0 Gy total body irradiation (TBX) were determined. SFV infection of immunosuppressed mice resulted in persistently high blood and brain virus titres, neuronal pycnosis, paralysis and death. No demyelination or central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory response occurred in these immunosuppressed mice despite high and persistent brain virus titres. The CNS inflammatory response and associated demyelination could be restored to infected immunosuppressed mice by adoptive transfer of spleen cells, and these changes were brought forward if the donor spleen cells were from mice previously sensitized to SFV. The results indicate that the immune response following SFV A7(74) infection is both protective and pathogenic, and that the demyelination is immune mediated and does not result from direct viral destruction of oligodendrocytes, or any other direct effect of the virus.
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Gates MC, Sheahan BJ, O'Sullivan MA, Atkins GJ. The pathogenicity of the A7, M9 and L10 strains of Semliki Forest virus for weanling mice and primary mouse brain cell cultures. J Gen Virol 1985; 66 ( Pt 11):2365-73. [PMID: 2997371 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-66-11-2365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The multiplication of the M9, A7 and L10 strains of Semliki Forest virus (SFV), both in weanling mice and primary mouse brain cell cultures, was compared. Following both intraperitoneal (i.p.) and intracerebral (i.c.) injection, the virulent L10 strain multiplied to higher titre in the mouse central nervous system (CNS) than did the less virulent M9 and A7 strains, whereas M9 multiplied to higher titre than A7. By the i.c. route, all three virus strains multiplied to higher titre than following i.p. injection. Multiplication of A7 and M9 in oligodendrocytes, but not neurons, was detected following i.c. injection. All three virus strains showed a tropism for cultured mouse glial cells rather than neurons. The L10 strain multiplied better in neurons than did A7 or M9. It is concluded that the mechanism of acute demyelination induced by the M9 and A7 strains is similar. Based on this and previous studies, it is proposed that infection of glial cells triggers immune-mediated demyelination. The virulence of the L10 strain is due to its ability to exceed a lethal threshold of damage to neurons before immune intervention can occur.
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Yang HB. [Ultrastructural changes of neonatal thymuses of mice infected with virus]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 1985; 14:221-3. [PMID: 3004756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Cunningham AL, Fraser JR. Ross River virus infection of human synovial cells in vitro. Aust J Exp Biol Med Sci 1985; 63 ( Pt 2):199-204. [PMID: 2994612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Ross River virus (RRV) strains T48 and SC18006 produced a self-limited cytopathic infection of primary and passaged human synovial cell culture. Extracellular (EC) virus titres reached peak levels at 2 days in cell lines and at 4 days in primary cultures, ranging between 10(4.5) and 10(6.6) fluorescent focus-forming units (ffu)/ml. Thereafter titres declined rapidly to undetectable levels at 10-12 days. The proportion of adherent cells showing virus antigen exceeded 60% at 3 days and decreased in all cultures to less than 1/500 after 12 days. Cytopathic effects (CPE) were greatest at 4-8 days and destroyed between 25 and 75% of the cell layer, with subsequent partial regeneration by division of surviving cells. In contrast to rubella virus infection of synovial cells, cultures at 32 degrees and 37 degrees revealed only minor differences and persistent infection was not established. CPE were more extensive at 37 degrees in nearly all synovial cell cultures and in Vero cultures. At 37 degrees synovial cells infected with T48 strain produced higher maximum titres and were more extensively infected than at 32 degrees.
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Tansey EM, Pessoa VF, Fleming S, Landon DN, Ikeda H. Pattern and extent of demyelination in the optic nerves of mice infected with Semliki Forest virus and the possibility of axonal sprouting. Brain 1985; 108 ( Pt 1):29-41. [PMID: 2983823 DOI: 10.1093/brain/108.1.29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The optic nerves of all mice infected with Semliki Forest virus (SFV) showed patchy demyelination, although the extent of demyelination varied between animals. There was a significant increase in small diameter unmyelinated fibres in the optic nerves of SFV infected mice, paralleled by a loss of small myelinated fibres, suggesting that the smaller myelinated fibres may be more susceptible to virus-induced demyelination. The small unmyelinated fibres were more numerous in the peripheral region of the optic nerve trunk, where blood vessels are found in greater numbers. In addition, a particularly large increase in the proportion of unmyelinated fibres which had diameters of less than 0.2 microns suggested the possibility of axonal sprouting.
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Atkins GJ, Sheahan BJ, Dimmock NJ. Semliki Forest virus infection of mice: a model for genetic and molecular analysis of viral pathogenicity. J Gen Virol 1985; 66 ( Pt 3):395-408. [PMID: 2982998 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-66-3-395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Chikungunya virus arthritis is an acute severe polyarthritis following upon the bite of infected mosquitoes in endemic areas. With rapid air transport an increasing number of tourists are being exposed to potential infection. Whether tourists returning home in the incubation viremic stage can infect local mosquito populations in their home countries is unknown. Most cases recover from the severe joint pains within several weeks but up to 12% retain some residual joint symptoms for years. A case report is given of probable Chikungunya arthritis progressing to joint destruction before ultimately subsiding after 15 years leaving a sequela of destroyed metatarsal heads and late osteoarthritic changes in the ankles.
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Jubelt B, Meagher JB. Poliovirus infection of cyclophosphamide-treated mice results in persistence and late paralysis: I. Clinical, pathologic, and immunologic studies. Neurology 1984; 34:486-93. [PMID: 6322051 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.34.4.486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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An attenuated human poliovirus infection of cyclophosphamide (CY)-treated mice was developed as a model of persistent CNS enterovirus infections and as an investigation of the interaction of virus with motor neurons during persistence. Ten percent of mice inoculated intracerebrally with undiluted virus developed clinical disease by day 90, but of those treated with CY, 80% developed disease. At higher virus dilutions plus CY there was a marked increase in the incubation period. The latest onset of clinical disease occurred on day 146. Only paralyzed animals had pathologic changes in the spinal cord and virus antigen in anterior horn cells. Neutralizing antibodies were suppressed by CY, as were humoral and cellular immune responses to other antigens.
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Karmysheva VI, Ovsiannikova NV, Ivannikova TA. [Inhibiting effect of colcemid on the development of cytopathic changes due to the Sindbis virus]. Vopr Virusol 1984; 29:201-6. [PMID: 6328766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The model of Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus) cell line infected with Sindbus virus was used to show that the presence in the maintenance medium of 0.01-0.1 micrograms/ml of colcemide inhibited the development of cytopathic changes, accumulation of viral antigens, and virus-specific complement-dependent cytolysis without affecting infectious virus production. The addition to the medium of 0.5% immune serum to Sindbis virus resulted not only in a similar inhibition but in a decrease of infectious virus titres. The latter effect was observed upon the addition of both colcemide and antiserum. Possible mechanisms of inhibition are discussed.
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McGuire RP, Eaton BT, Kisilevsky R. Ribosome topography in baby hamster kidney cells infected with Sindbis and vesicular stomatitis viruses. Biochim Biophys Acta 1983; 741:258-68. [PMID: 6317037 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(83)90067-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The topography of polysomal ribosomes in mock-infected and in Sindbis virus- and vesicular stomatitis virus-infected BHK cells was investigated using a double, radioactive labelling technique. Ribosomal proteins in intact polysomes were surface labelled by reductive methylation using [14C]formaldehyde. Following removal of ribosomal RNA, proteins were denatured in 6 M guanidine and labelled with [3H]borohydride. Labelled ribosomal proteins were separated by electrophoresis in two-dimensional gels and the 3H/14C ratio for each ribosomal protein was taken as an index of its relative surface exposure in intact ribosomes. Comparison of the ratios for individual ribosomal proteins in Sindbis virus-infected vs. control polysomes indicated that proteins L7, L8, L17, L26 and S19 became more 'buried' and others such as L4, L29, L36, S2 and S26 became more 'exposed' in infected cells. Most of the topographical alterations occurred in the large ribosomal subunit. In contrast, infection of BHK cells with vesicular stomatitis virus induced little or no topographical alteration.
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Fraser JR, Ratnamohan VM, Dowling JP, Becker GJ, Varigos GA. The exanthem of Ross River virus infection: histology, location of virus antigen and nature of inflammatory infiltrate. J Clin Pathol 1983; 36:1256-63. [PMID: 6313769 PMCID: PMC498542 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.36.11.1256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The exanthem of epidemic polyarthritis, a disease caused by Ross River (RR) virus, was examined three days after onset of the common erythematous and the rare purpuric forms of the eruption. The dermis showed a light perivascular infiltrate of mononuclear cells in both, with extravasation of erythrocytes in the latter. No immunoglobulins (IgM, IgG, IgA) or complement components (Clq, C3) were detected. Most of the infiltrating cells were T lymphocytes of the T suppressor-cytotoxic class. Their perivascular location, the scarcity of other lymphocytes or phagocytes, and rapid resolution of the rash indicated that the T lymphocytes were responsible for cytotoxic destruction of virus-infected cells. A few monocyte-macrophage cells were identified in the perivascular infiltrate. RR virus antigen was found in the basal epidermal and eccrine duct epithelial cells of both types of lesion and in the perivascular zone of the erythematous lesion, but appeared to have been eliminated from this region in the purpuric lesion. It is suggested that secondary effects of the T-cytotoxic reaction on nearby capillaries are responsible for erythema, oedema and purpura in the exanthem.
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Focal central nervous system demyelination is a prominent feature of Ross River virus encephalitis in mice. The present ultrastructural study shows that oligodendrocytes are a primary site of viral replication. The earliest myelin disruption occurs in association with an inflammatory infiltrate composed primarily of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, which are later replaced by macrophages. Viral particles are found in oligodendrocytes, selected neuronal populations, macrophages, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes through the end of the first week of infection as macrophages remove myelin from normal-appearing axons. Between the second and third weeks of infection, axons within foci of demyelination partially remyelinate with central myelin. Schwann cells are not found within regions of central remyelination. Cyclophosphamide treatment does not prevent or delay demyelination or remyelination. Results of this and previous studies strongly suggest that Ross River virus--induced demyelination is not immune mediated but rather the direct result of viral infection of oligodendrocytes.
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Leonova ES, Karmysheva VI, Ovsiannikova NV. [Characteristics of experimental alphavirus infection during pregnancy and in the early stages of ontogeny in mice]. Vopr Virusol 1983; 28:53-9. [PMID: 6314670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Inoculation of random-bred mice with Sindbis virus at various periods of pregnancy resulted in the development of marked changes and loss of 24.7% of fetuses when mice were infected at the stage of placentation. Retardation in the development and death of progeny in females infected at later stages of pregnancy were observed. Antibody production was shown to be enhanced in pregnant mice as compared with non-pregnant. Possible mechanisms of increased susceptibility to alphaviruses during pregnancy and in early stages of ontogenesis are discussed. A potential danger of development of embryo- and fetopathies in humans is considered on the basis of the above studies and the data on equivalent stages of prenatal development of mice and human beings.
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Barlow RM, Gardiner AC, Nettleton PF. The pathology of a spontaneous and experimental mucosal disease-like syndrome in sheep recovered from clinical border disease. J Comp Pathol 1983; 93:451-61. [PMID: 6309922 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9975(83)90032-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The pathological changes which accompanied a severe clinical syndrome characterized by intractable diarrhoea and/or respiratory distress in sheep recovered from clinical Border disease consisted of inflammatory lymphoproliferative lesions in several organs, notably the CNS and intestinal tract. The syndrome has been reproduced experimentally by "super-infection" with homologous Border disease virus. The differential diagnosis is discussed and attention drawn to the similarity between the enteric lesions and those of bovine mucosal disease.
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Homogenised tissues or tissue culture supernatant fluid containing a noncytopathic pestivirus obtained from a lamb with a neurologic form of border disease, were inoculated into ewes at different stages of pregnancy. Foetal death occurred in 9 ewes of those inoculated between 19 and 47 days of pregnancy while 3 ewes did not lamb. Eight of the foetuses were aborted between 77 and 132 days of pregnancy; of these 6 were autolysed or mummified and one had arthrogryposis. The one full-term dead lamb had a hairy birth coat and lissencephalic micrencephaly. Foetal death occurred in only 7 of 14 ewes inoculated between 57 and 72 days of pregnancy. Four of these ewes aborted between 77 and 108 days of pregnancy and 3 gave birth to full-term, dead, hairy lambs. The remaining 7 ewes gave birth to live hairy lambs with severe inco-ordination. All lambs carried to term and aborted foetuses or lambs that could be examined had a range of intracranial malformations including focal leucomalacia, micrencephaly, hydranencephaly, porencephaly, lissencephaly and cerebellar hypoplasia. Some lambs also had skeletal abnormalities including arthrogryposis, scoliosis and brachygnathia inferior. The pestivirus isolate used in these trials produced more severe effects on the ovine foetus than previously observed in similar inoculation trials using pestivirus isolates from border disease lambs without nervous signs.
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Fazakerley JK, Amor S, Webb HE. Reconstitution of Semliki forest virus infected mice, induces immune mediated pathological changes in the CNS. Clin Exp Immunol 1983; 52:115-20. [PMID: 6305540 PMCID: PMC1535588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Reconstitution of Semliki forest virus infected nude mice with spleen cells from their immunocompetent nu/+ litter mates resulted in an abolition of the otherwise persistent brain virus, production of anti-SFV IgG, and development of normally absent brain pathology. The brain pathological changes, including demyelination, seem to be mediated by T cells, and are maximum 14 days after sensitization of the reconstituting spleen cells. Sensitization of the spleen cells 7 days before transfer to the nude mice results in pathological changes advanced by about 8 days, compared to reconstitution with unsensitized cells. The involvement of T cells in the virus-induced pathology is discussed.
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Pathak S, Illavia SJ, Webb HE. The identification and role of cells involved in CNS demyelination in mice after Semliki Forest virus infection: an ultrastructural study. Prog Brain Res 1983; 59:237-54. [PMID: 6320269 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)63869-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Sheahan BJ, Gates MC, Caffrey JF, Atkins GJ. Oligodendrocyte infection and demyelination produced in mice by the M9 mutant of Semliki Forest virus. Acta Neuropathol 1983; 60:257-65. [PMID: 6310927 PMCID: PMC7086535 DOI: 10.1007/bf00691874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Intraperitoneal inoculation with the M9 mutant of Semliki Forest virus caused focal demyelinating encephalomyelitis in weanling BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. Demyelination was more severe in BALB/c than in C57BL/6 mice. Virus particles were seen in oligodendrocytes in areas of myelin vacuolation 5 and 7 days post inoculation (DPI). Oligodendrocytes containing virus in BALB/c mice showed hypertrophy and vacuolar degeneration. There was a mononuclear cell infiltrate and lymphocytes and necrotic cells were present in vacuoles in myelin sheaths. Demyelinating plaques containing macrophages laden with myelin debris were most prominent 14 DPI when virus was cleared from the brain. Remyelination of the central type occurred 28 DPI in BALB/c mice. These findings indicate that direct virus-induced injury to oligodendrocytes has a major role in the initiation of inflammation and demyelination in this model system.
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