Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) represents a useful experimental model of murine infection with a non-cytopathic virus, bearing resemblance to HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in humans. Recent data from the LCMV model indicate that the humoral immune response that is induced by non-cytopathic viruses is far more complex than previously appreciated. LCMV-induced IgG producti...

Arboviruses are maintained in a natural cycle that requires blood-sucking arthropod and vertebrate hosts. Arboviruses are believed to persistently infect their arthropod host without overt pathology and cause acute infection with viremia in their vertebrate host. We have focused on elucidating how a specific arbovirus, Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus, causes cytopathic effect in cells derived fro...

In this study, we reported the isolation, identification, and molecular characteristics of nine BVDV strains that were isolated from serum persistently infected cattle. The new designated as TJ2101, TJ2102, TJ2103, TJ2104, TJ2105, TJ2106, TJ2107, TJ2108 TJ2109. TJ2102 TJ2104 found to be cytopathic BVDV, other non-cytopathic BVDV. An alignment phylogenetic analysis showed isolates share 92.2–96....

The expression of biotype-specific epitopes in cells infected with cytopathic (cp) and non-cytopathic (ncp) bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) was analysed by immunofluorescence. Four monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) directed against different epitopes on the viral glycoprotein gp48 were used. With cells infected with cpBVDV strain NADL, the four MAbs yielded a strong and granular cytoplasmic fluo...

Sindbis vectors have shown remarkable antitumor efficacy and tumor-targeting capacity in animal models and hold promise for cancer therapy. Different packaging systems are used to produce propagation-incompetent Sindbis vectors. However, the vectors produced using either DH-BB single helper RNA or split helper RNA can spread in permissive cell cultures. We investigated the mechanisms of vector ...

The Elrod-Adams model is a pressure-saturation formulation which takes into account cavitation phenomena in thin fluid films mechanics. We study the asymptotic behavior of the model, using the two-scale convergence technique, in devices such as journal bearings. Interest is highly motivated by the roughness effects of the surfaces. Anisotropic effects appear on the coefficients, which is usual,...

Previous studies suggested that the rapidly replicating, highly cytopathic, syncytium-inducing (rapid-high/SI) phenotype of simian immunodeficiency virus Mne variants that evolved in macaques inoculated with a slowly replicating, minimally cytopathic, non-syncytium-inducing (slow-low/NSI) molecular clone was not solely the result of changes in the envelope surface protein (Env SU). To define th...

A cytopathic factor was isolated from M. hyopneumoniae VPP11 membranes. This factor had an isoelectric point of 6.2 and was capable of inducing cytopathic effect in MRC-5 human lung fibroblast culture at a concentration of 250 ng of protein per ml. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of this cytopathic factor showed a major band with a molecular weight of approximately 54,...