Preliminary studies on cell cultures infected with Marek's disease agent.
Preliminary studies on cell cultures infected with Marek's disease agent.
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对感染马立克氏病病原体的细胞培养物的初步研究。
DOI:
10.2307/1588098
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发表时间:
1968
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影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
J. Solomon
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作者:
R. Witter;G. Burgoyne;J. Solomon
Bioassay of Marek's disease (MD) agents presently requires chick inoculation and later examination for lesions (2,10,13). The usefulness of such methods is limited by the physical requirements of time, susceptible birds, and strict isolation facilities, and also by the subjectivity of the response measurement. The studies reported herein were based on the premise that the assay of MD agent in cell culture would constitute a significant improvement over existing in vivo methods. Previous attempts to propagate the MD agent in cell culture were either unsuccessful or equivocal. Biggs and Payne (2) failed to demonstrate infectivity in chick embryo fibroblast cultures inoculated with the B14 strain when tested at the 3rd and 6th passages. Vindel (11) propagated in cell culture a filtrable agent isolated from chickens with neurolymphomatosis. This agent produced a rapid cytopathic effect in chick embryo fibroblasts, and 30C of chickens inoculated with fluids from infected cultures developed MD within 3 months. The identity of this agent was not definitely established, however, since lesions occurring in the inoculated chicks were not described, and evidence that the lesions were induced by the inoculum was inconclusive. Despite the paucity of evidence for the propagation of MD agent in cell culture, the potential usefulness of a cell culture bioassay appeared to justify further investigation. The initial objective of this study was to develop techniques for cultivating MDinfected cells and for infecting cultures with MD agent. This report describes successful maintenance of the JM strain of MD in cultures of chick embryo bone marrow and certain other cells. We are aware of simultaneous and independent investigations by Calnek (4) and Kottaridis and Luginbuhl (7), as yet unpublished,