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Cosby SL, Weir L. Measles vaccination: Threat from related veterinary viruses and need for continued vaccination post measles eradication. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2018; 14:229-233. [PMID: 29173050 PMCID: PMC5791572 DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1403677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Measles virus (MV) is the only human virus within the morbillivirus genus of the Paramyxoviridae. The veterinary members are canine distemper virus (CDV), peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), Rinderpest Virus (RPV) as well as the marine morbilliviruses phocine distemper virus (PDV), dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) and porpoise morbillivirus (PMV). Morbilliviruses have a severe impact on humans and animal species. They confer diseases which have contributed to morbidity and mortality of the population on a global scale. There is substantial evidence from both natural and experimental infections that morbilliviruses can readily cross species barriers. Of most concern with regard to zoonosis is the more recently reported fatal infection of primates in Japan and China with strains of CDV which have adapted to this host. The close genetic relationship, shared cell entry receptors and similar pathogenesis between the morbilliviruses highlights the potential consequences of complete withdrawal of MV vaccination after eradication. Therefore, it would be prudent to continue the current MV vaccination. Ultimately development of novel, safe vaccines which have higher efficacy against the veterinary morbilliviruses is a priority. These would to protect the human population long term against the threat of zoonosis by these veterinary viruses.
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- Sara Louise Cosby
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Veterinary Sciences Division, Stormont, Belfast, UK
- Queen's University Belfast, Centre for Experimental Medicine, Belfast, UK
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- Queen's University Belfast, Centre for Experimental Medicine, Belfast, UK
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Kul O, Kabakci N, Atmaca HT, Ozkul A. Natural Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus Infection: Novel Pathologic Findings Resembling Other Morbillivirus Infections. Vet Pathol 2016; 44:479-86. [PMID: 17606509 DOI: 10.1354/vp.44-4-479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The present study describes pathologic and virologic findings in 15 sheep and 6 goats that died of natural peste des petits ruminants virus infection in Turkey. Pathologic findings included erosiveulcerative stomatitis, fibrino-necrotic tracheitis, bronchointerstitial pneumonia, multifocal coagulation necroses in the liver, and severe lymphocytolysis in lymphoid tissues. Syncytial cells were conspicuous, especially in the oral mucosa, pulmonary alveoli, liver, and lymphoid tissues. In addition to the typical tissue distribution, eosinophilic intracytoplasmic and/or intranuclear inclusions were observed in epithelial cells lining the renal pelvis and abomasal mucosa. Immunolabeling of the viral antigen was observed in the kidney, brain, rumen, abomasum, heart, and myocytes of the tongue besides its more typical locations. In this study, we report and describe in detail the first peste des petits ruminants endemic in Kirikkale Province, Central Anatolia of Turkey. In conclusion, these previously unreported pathologic findings in natural peste des petits ruminants virus infection establish a basis for resemblance to other morbillivirus infections, such as canine distemper and distemper of sea mammals. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analyses indicated that the 448-bp genome fragment was amplified in 18 cases (18/21, 85.7%). Phylogenetic analysis showed that viruses belong to lineage 4 in the peste des petits ruminants virus common phylogenetic tree.
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- O Kul
- Department of Pathology, Kirikkale University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 71451, Yahsihan, Kirikkale, Turkey.
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Peste des petits ruminants virus causes a highly infectious disease of small ruminants that is endemic across Africa, the Middle East and large regions of Asia. The virus is considered to be a major obstacle to the development of sustainable agriculture across the developing world and has recently been targeted by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for eradication with the aim of global elimination of the disease by 2030. Fundamentally, the vaccines required to successfully achieve this goal are currently available, but the availability of novel vaccine preparations to also fulfill the requisite for differentiation between infected and vaccinated animals (DIVA) may reduce the time taken and the financial costs of serological surveillance in the later stages of any eradication campaign. Here, we overview what is currently known about the virus, with reference to its origin, updated global circulation, molecular evolution, diagnostic tools and vaccines currently available to combat the disease. Further, we comment on recent developments in our knowledge of various recombinant vaccines and on the potential for the development of novel multivalent vaccines for small ruminants.
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- S Parida
- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF, United Kingdom; National Institute for Animal Biotechnology, Miyapur, Hyderabad, India.
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF, United Kingdom
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF, United Kingdom
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- Animal and Plant Health Agency, Weybridge, Surrey, KT15 3NB United Kingdom
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- Animal and Plant Health Agency, Weybridge, Surrey, KT15 3NB United Kingdom
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Pope RA, Parida S, Bailey D, Brownlie J, Barrett T, Banyard AC. Early events following experimental infection with Peste-Des-Petits ruminants virus suggest immune cell targeting. PLoS One 2013; 8:e55830. [PMID: 23418464 PMCID: PMC3572172 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2012] [Accepted: 01/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Peste-des-petits ruminants virus (PPRV) is a viral pathogen that causes a devastating plague of small ruminants. PPRV is an economically significant disease that continues to be a major obstacle to the development of sustainable agriculture across the developing world. The current understanding of PPRV pathogenesis has been heavily assumed from the closely related rinderpest virus (RPV) and other morbillivirus infections alongside data derived from field outbreaks. There have been few studies reported that have focused on the pathogenesis of PPRV and very little is known about the processes underlying the early stages of infection. In the present study, 15 goats were challenged by the intranasal route with a virulent PPRV isolate, Côte d'Ivoire '89 (CI/89) and sacrificed at strategically defined time-points post infection to enable pre- and post-mortem sampling. This approach enabled precise monitoring of the progress and distribution of virus throughout the infection from the time of challenge, through peak viraemia and into a period of convalescence. Observations were then related to findings of previous field studies and experimental models of PPRV to develop a clinical scoring system for PPRV. Importantly, histopathological investigations demonstrated that the initial site for virus replication is not within the epithelial cells of the respiratory mucosa, as has been previously reported, but is within the tonsillar tissue and lymph nodes draining the site of inoculation. We propose that virus is taken up by immune cells within the respiratory mucosa which then transport virus to lymphoid tissues where primary virus replication occurs, and from where virus enters circulation. Based on these findings we propose a novel clinical scoring methodology for PPRV pathogenesis and suggest a fundamental shift away from the conventional model of PPRV pathogenesis.
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- Robert A. Pope
- The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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The WHO has set regional elimination goals for measles eradication to be achieved by 2020 or earlier. A major question is whether an opportunity for veterinary virus infection of humans may arise when measles is eradicated and if vaccination is discontinued. Lessons have been learned from animal to human virus transmission i.e., HIV and more recently from severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian influenza virus infections. We are therefore alerted to the risk of zoonosis from the veterinary morbilliviruses. In this review the evidence from viral genomics, animal studies and cell culture experiments will be explored to evaluate the possibility of cross-infection of humans with these viruses.
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- S Louise Cosby
- Queen’s University, Belfast, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Infection & Immunity, 4th Floor, Medical Biology Centre, Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL
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Infectious and Parasitic Diseases of the Alimentary Tract. JUBB, KENNEDY & PALMER'S PATHOLOGY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS 2007. [PMCID: PMC7155580 DOI: 10.1016/b978-070202823-6.50096-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Toplu N. Characteristic and non-characteristic pathological findings in peste des petits ruminants (PPR) of sheep in the Ege district of Turkey. J Comp Pathol 2005; 131:135-41. [PMID: 15276853 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2004.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2003] [Accepted: 02/10/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This report describes the pathological and immunohistochemical findings in naturally infected lambs from three outbreaks of peste des petits ruminants in Mugla and Aydin provinces of the Ege district of Turkey. At necropsy, ulcerative stomatitis, catarrhal or fibrinous bronchopneumonia, and acute catarrhal enteritis were observed. Histopathologically, syncytial cells containing inclusion bodies were seen in the tongue and in the buccal, labial and soft palate mucosae. In pneumonic lungs, syncytial cells were present in the alveolar lumina, and cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in epithelial cells of the bronchi and bronchioli. Immunohistochemically, viral antigen was strongly labelled in the lung, oral tissues and small intestine.
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- N Toplu
- Department of Pathology, Veterinary Faculty, Adnan Menderes University, Işikli, Aydin 09016, Turkey
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Kumar P, Tripathi BN, Sharma AK, Kumar R, Sreenivasa BP, Singh RP, Dhar P, Bandyopadhyay SK. Pathological and immunohistochemical study of experimental peste des petits ruminants virus infection in goats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 51:153-9. [PMID: 15228548 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2004.00747.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an emerging, economically important viral disease of goats and sheep in the Indian subcontinent. In the present investigation, 15 hill goats were experimentally infected with 2 ml of 10% splenic suspension of a virulent isolate of PPR virus (PPR/Izatnagar/94) that had caused heavy mortality (>75%) in goats during 1994 outbreaks in northern India. More than 86% (13 of 15) animals died between 9 and 13 days post inoculation at the height of temperature or when temperatures were declining. Necropsy findings included congestion of gastrointestinal tract (GIT), nasal sinuses, consolidation of antero-ventral lobes of lungs, engorged spleen, and occasionally oedematous lymph nodes. Histopathological examination of major organs of GIT revealed degeneration and necrosis of labial mucosa, severe mucosal and submucosal congestion, degeneration and necrosis of intestinal epithelium and lymphoid cell depletion from Peyer's patches along with presence of syncytia at times. Lungs showed broncho-interstitial changes and presence of intracytoplasmic and intranuclear eosinophilic inclusions in alveolar macrophages and syncytial cells. These changes in lungs were frequently complicated with serofibrinous pneumonia (57%, eight of 14). Lymphocytolysis and occasional syncytia formation were evident in the lymphoid tissues. Immunohistochemical (IHC) findings included presence of PPR virus antigen in the labial, intestinal, and bronchiolar epithelial cells, pneumocytes, macrophages and syncytial cells in lungs, and lymphoid (intact and necrotic) and reticular cells in lymphoid organs. The findings of the study indicated the highly virulent nature of the PPR virus isolate (PPR/Izatnagar/94), causing 100% mortality and characteristic pathological changes in the target organs such as lungs, intestines and lymphoid tissues. The results of the IHC study suggested that indirect immunoperoxidase could be an alternative method in the absence of more sophisticated methods of laboratory diagnosis of PPR virus infection in goats.
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- P Kumar
- Division of Pathology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Reindel JF, Gough AW, Pilcher GD, Bobrowski WF, Sobocinski GP, de la Iglesia FA. Systemic proliferative changes and clinical signs in cynomolgus monkeys administered a recombinant derivative of human epidermal growth factor. Toxicol Pathol 2001; 29:159-73. [PMID: 11421483 DOI: 10.1080/019262301317052431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Epidermal growth factor (EGF) effects have been explored extensively in vivo in rodents, but little is known about trophic responses in nonhuman primates. A previous publication reports the hyperplastic epithelial/parenchymal changes noted in the digestive tract (tongue, esophagus, stomach, intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and salivary glands) of adult cynomolgus monkeys treated with recombinant human EGF(1-48) (rhEGF(1-48)). This report documents clinical findings and structural effects in the remaining epithelium-containing tissues of these animals. Two monkeys/sex/dose received rhEGF(1-48) by intravenous bolus at 0 (vehicle), 10, 100, 500 (females only), or 1,000 microg/kg/day (males only) daily for up to 2 weeks. Treatment- and dose-related clinical findings included emesis, fecal alterations (soft feces and diarrhea), lacrimation, nasal discharge, hypoactivity, transient hypotension, and salivation after dosing. Male monkeys administered 1,000 microg/kg became moribund after 5 days of treatment and were necropsied. All other monkeys completed the 2-week treatment period. Necropsy findings in nongastrointestinal tissues were: enlarged, pale kidneys at 100 microg/kg and greater; small thymuses seen sporadically at all doses; and enlarged adrenals and small thyroids in males at 1,000 microqg/kg. Respective organ-to-brain weight ratios at 500 and 1,000 microg/kg for kidneys were 1.5- and 2.6-fold greater and for heart were 1.7- and 1.3-fold greater than controls. Microscopically, pronounced dose-related epithelial hypertrophy and hyperplasia were evident in kidney, urinary bladder, skin (epidermis and adnexa), mammary gland, prostate, seminal vesicles, epididymis, uterus, cervix, vagina, thyroid, thymus, tonsillar crypts, cornea, trachea, and pulmonary airways. Epitheliotrophic effects were conspicuous in many tissues at 100 to 1,000 microg/kg. Changes to renal collecting ducts were present at 10 microg/kg, suggesting that kidneys were a relatively sensitive target. Proliferative alterations were not apparent in testes, intraocular structures, brain ependyma and choroid plexus at any dose. Aside from the noted exceptions, rhEGF(1-48) was a pantrophic epithelial mitogen in cynomolgus monkeys when used intravenously at suprapharmacologic doses.
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- J F Reindel
- Drug Safety Evaluation, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA
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Lund BT, Tiwari A, Galbraith S, Baron MD, Morrison WI, Barrett T. Vaccination of cattle with attenuated rinderpest virus stimulates CD4(+) T cell responses with broad viral antigen specificity. J Gen Virol 2000; 81:2137-2146. [PMID: 10950969 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-9-2137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The immune responses of cattle inoculated with either a virulent or an attenuated vaccine strain of rinderpest virus (RPV) were examined by measuring the proliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to whole RPV antigen preparations and to individual RPV major structural proteins expressed using recombinant adenoviruses. Responses to the T cell mitogen concanavalin A (ConA) were also measured as a control to monitor non-specific effects of infection with RPV on T cell responses. Infection with the vaccine strain of RPV was found to induce a strong CD4(+) T cell response. A specific response was detected to all RPV proteins tested, namely the haemagglutinin (H), fusion (F), nucleocapsid (N) and matrix (M) proteins, in animals vaccinated with the attenuated strain of the virus. No one protein was found to be dominant with respect to the induction of T cell proliferative responses. As expected, vaccination of cattle with an unrelated virus vaccine, a capripox vaccine, failed to produce a response to RPV antigens. While profound suppression of T cell responses was observed following infection with the virulent strain of RPV, no evidence of impairment of T cell responsiveness was observed following RPV vaccination, or on subsequent challenge of vaccinated animals with virulent virus.
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- Brett T Lund
- Division of Immunology1 and Division of Molecular Biology2, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
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- Division of Immunology1 and Division of Molecular Biology2, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
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- Division of Immunology1 and Division of Molecular Biology2, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
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- Division of Immunology1 and Division of Molecular Biology2, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
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- Division of Immunology, Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berkshire RG16 0NN, UK3
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- Division of Immunology1 and Division of Molecular Biology2, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
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Brown CC. A review of three pathology-based techniques for retrospective diagnosis of rinderpest, with comparison to virus isolation. Res Vet Sci 1997; 63:103-6. [PMID: 9429240 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5288(97)90000-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Base of tongue, eyelid, and retropharyngeal lymph node were collected from three animals experimentally infected with rinderpest and utilised in a study comparing virus isolation with histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and in situ hybridisation to determine the usefulness of the latter three techniques as retrospective diagnostic aids for this disease. Virus isolation was positive for all nine samples. Histopathology was suggestive in all the tissues and definitive in some. Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridisation highlighted the presence of rinderpest antigen of rinderpest nucleic acid in all of the sections. However, in situ hybridisation was more specific than immunohistochemistry.
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- C C Brown
- Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, APHIS-USDA, Plum Island, New York, USA.
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Reindel JF, Pilcher GD, Gough AW, Haskins JR, de la Iglesia FA. Recombinant human epidermal growth factor1-48-induced structural changes in the digestive tract of cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Toxicol Pathol 1996; 24:669-80. [PMID: 9082544 DOI: 10.1177/019262339602400601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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To determine the cellular effects and potential toxicity of exogenously administered recombinant human epidermal growth factor1-48 (EGF1-48) in primates, intravenous bolus injections were given to 2 cynomolgus monkeys per sex at 0 (vehicle control). 10, 100, 500 (females only), and 1,000 micrograms/kg/day (males only) for up to 2 wk. Males given the suprapharmacologic dose of 1,000 micrograms/kg did not tolerate treatment and were necropsied after 5 days of dosing. All other monkeys completed the 2-wk study. Necropsy findings included enlarged, discolored, pale tan livers at 500 micrograms/kg and greater, firm, thickened pancreata in 500-micrograms/kg females, and enlarged salivary glands at all doses. Relative liver weights were increased at 500 and 1,000 micrograms/kg: mean salivary gland weights in all dose groups were greater than in controls. Histopathologic changes were primarily those of diffuse epithelial cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia in liver (hepatocytes and biliary tract), pancreas, salivary glands, tongue, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine, and gallbladder. Alterations were dose-related in intensity and occurred in at last some tissues at the lowest dose. In gastric glands, colon crypts, pancreatic ducts, biliary tract, and salivary glands, differentiated epithelial cells were replaced by cells of less differentiated phenotype. These morphologic alterations were consistent with exuberant proliferation induced by this epithelial mitogen. The extent of the proliferative response in tissues of the digestive tract attests to the potency of this fragment of human EGF1-53 in primates. Furthermore, the epithelial proliferation was significantly greater than that reported previously in EGF-treated rodents.
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- J F Reindel
- Department of Pathology and Experimental Toxicology, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Division of Warner-Lambert Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA
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Rey Nores JE, McCullough KC. Relative ability of different bovine leukocyte populations to support active replication of rinderpest virus. J Virol 1996; 70:4419-26. [PMID: 8676465 PMCID: PMC190375 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.7.4419-4426.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were infected with the pathogenic Saudi isolate of rinderpest virus (RPV) in order to identify the cell subpopulation(s) susceptible to active replication of this virus. Flow cytometry analysis, using a monoclonal antibody recognizing the H glycoprotein of RPV, showed that monocytes were the main subpopulation in which the virus replicated, whereas <2% of lymphocytes expressed viral antigen. The activation of PBMC with concanavalin A before infection resulted in an increase in the capacity of lymphocytes to support RPV replication; >90% of CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes expressed viral antigen at 3 days postinfection, although < or = 40% of gamma/delta T cells were productively infected. B-lymphocyte activation with pokeweed mitogen also resulted in increased replication of this virus in these cells, involving up to 40% of B lymphocytes. An enhancement of lymphocyte susceptibility to infection and active replication by RPV was observed upon coculture of RPV-infected PBMC on bovine endothelial cells. Such enhancement was most marked with the B-cell and CD4+ T-cell subpopulations. Contact between lymphocytes and extracellular matrix components did not alter the capacity of RPV to replicate in lymphocytes. This intercellular contact with endothelial cells increased the viability of certain lymphocyte subpopulations, but it alone could not explain the increased sensitivity to RPV. Intercellular signalling, which resulted in interleukin-2 receptor upregulation, probably played a role. In summary, monocytes are the main target for active, productive infection by RPV. Similar replication in lymphocytes depends on their activation state and on contact with accessory cells such as endothelial cells. These characteristics have important implications for virus traffic in vivo and the pathogenesis of this disease.
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- J E Rey Nores
- Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis, Mittelhäusern, Switzerland
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Brown CC, Ojok L, Mariner JC. Immunohistochemical detection of rinderpest virus: effects of autolysis and period of fixation. Res Vet Sci 1996; 60:182-4. [PMID: 8685543 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5288(96)90016-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Samples of eyelid, tongue, soft palate and palatine tonsil were collected from calves infected experimentally with rinderpest virus. The tissues were fixed in 10 per cent neutral buffered formalin immediately, 24 or 48 hours post mortem. Then, after three days, 10 days, 28 days or three months in formalin, they were processed into paraffin blocks and examined immunohistochemically for rinderpest viral antigen. The tonsil was the best of the four tissues in providing a consistently positive immunohistochemical signal for the presence of virus, despite autolytic changes and/or prolonged fixation.
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- C C Brown
- Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, NVSL-VS-APHIS-USDA, Plum Island, New York, USA
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