EXPERIMENTAL DEMYELINATION PRODUCED BY THE A59-STRAIN OF MOUSE HEPATITIS-VIRUS
EXPERIMENTAL DEMYELINATION PRODUCED BY THE A59-STRAIN OF MOUSE HEPATITIS-VIRUS
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DOI:
10.1212/wnl.34.5.597
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
9.9
通讯作者:
WEISS, SR
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作者:
LAVI, E;GILDEN, DH;WEISS, SR
Intracerebral inoculation of 4-6-wk-old C57BL/6 mice with the A59 strain of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), a murine coronavirus, produced biphasic disease. Acute hepatitis and mild meningoencephalitis were followed by subacute spastic paralysis with demyelinating lesions in the brain and spinal cord as determined by Epon-embedded toludine-blue-stained sections and by EM. MHV-A59 was cultured by plaque assay from the blood, brain, spinal cord and liver of infected mice during the acute phase, but not in the chronic stage. MHV-A59 antigen was detected by immunofluorescence (IF) until 3 mo. postinfection (PI). Serum anti-MHV-A59 antibodies were detected from 7 days to 5 mo. PI. The induction of demyelination by MHV-A59 provides a suitable system to study virus-induced demyelination further.