Alphavirus vectors: applications for DNA vaccine production and gene expression.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the value of contrast-enhanced harmonic ultrasonography (US) with Sonazoid, a second-generation US contrast agent, in the differential diagnosis of liver tumors compared to dynamic CT. METHODS:A total of 249 hepatic nodules in 214 patients were studied; these included 177 hepatocellular carcinomas...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Hatanaka K,Kudo M,Minami Y,Ueda T,Tatsumi C,Kitai S,Takahashi S,Inoue T,Hagiwara S,Chung H,Ueshima K,Maekawa K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological and physical properties of isolated particles as well as reactions of barley cultivars after virus inoculation showed that the yellow disease of barley is caused by different viruses. Results summarized in this paper suggest that the European isolates BaYMV-So and BaYMV-NM are closely related to, or identi...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Huth W,Adams MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis, a high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can be observed. In a prospective study, sera of 273 patients were examined for the presence of HCV infection by serological tests and by PCR. Thirty-five patients (12.8%) were HCV antibody positive, and in 31 of...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Schröter M,Feucht HH,Schäfer P,Zöllner B,Laufs R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arboviruses co-circulating within a population that are transmitted by the same vector have the potential to cause coinfections. Coinfections with dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) have been occurring in Brazil, but it is not well-understood how human responses vary during...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Sánchez-Arcila JC,Badolato-Correa J,de Souza TMA,Paiva IA,Barbosa LS,Nunes PCG,Lima MDRQ,Dos Santos FB,Damasco PV,da Cunha RV,Azeredo EL,de Oliveira-Pinto LM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus belonging to the Togaviridae family. Alphaviruses cause a chronic non-cytopathic infection in mosquito cells, while they develop a highly cytopathic infection in cells originating from various vertebrates. In this study, we compared the cytopathic effect (CPE) induc...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Li YG,Siripanyaphinyo U,Tumkosit U,Noranate N,A-nuegoonpipat A,Tao R,Kurosu T,Ikuta K,Takeda N,Anantapreecha S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genital infection with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) has been etiologically linked with the development of cervical and other anogenital cancers. There is therefore a need for an effective HPV vaccine with the potential to significantly reduce the burden of more than half a million new cervical cancer cases i...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kirnbauer R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The present study was launched to systematically characterize the molecular genotypes and quantitative serological biomarkers during the natural course of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection in a patient population from Chongqing, China. METHODS:A total of 140 patients were enrolled and grouped accordi...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Xiang Y,Huang S,Xia J,Ye D,Chen P,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rauscher murine leukemia virus (RLV) infection of adult mice results in splenomegaly that is proportional to the virus titer. We have used this model to study the therapy of chronic viremia as well as chemoprophylaxis after viral exposure, both with single agents and with combination therapy. We showed that prompt ini...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Ruprecht RM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solubilized envelope antigens (glycoproteins) of Sendai virus were purified in a DEAE-Bio-Gel A column. Monospecific antisera were prepared against the antigens, designated HN and F glycoproteins. These glycoproteins are antigenically distinct. Immunodiffusion analyses of the envelope antigens of three representative ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Urata DM,Seto JT

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serologic comparison was performed by immune electron microscopy between hepatitis A antigen (related to the MS-1 strain of hepatitis A virus) and a viral isolate, CR69(076), from the stool of a patient in Costa Rica with viral hepatitis. CR69(076) was not antigenically related to hepatitis A antigen but was related...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Dienstag JL,Pelon W,Tyeryar F,Purcell RH

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The open reading frame 8 (ORF8) within the short unique (U(s)) region of the bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) genome was predicted to encode a protein with homology to U(s)9 protein of other alpha herpesviruses. The aim of this study is to identify the protein encoded by the U(s) ORF8 and to examine the effect of...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Nakamichi K,Matsumoto Y,Tohya Y,Otsuka H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To screen and identify cellular proteins binding to the core region of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA genome. METHODS:The plasmid pHCV core was constructed to generate in vitro transcripts of the core region of HCV RNA genome. Ultraviolet (UV) cross-linking experiment and competition analysis were performed to ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Su HX,Xu DZ,Zhang YH,Men K,Zhao XN,Li D,Zhang L,Zhang JX,Yan YP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify specific environmental, viral, and genetic risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the interaction of such factors, we are conducting a prospective study in a high-incidence area of China. Questionnaires were completed and biosamples collected by 60,984 men ages 30-64 years, at study entry. Wit...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： London WT,Evans AA,McGlynn K,Buetow K,An P,Gao L,Lustbader E,Ross E,Chen G,Shen F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of the virion proteins of 7 definitive tobamoviruses have been compared. The results show that the proteins may be arranged unequivocally in a single dendrogram which, by analogy with similar comparisons of other sets of homologous proteins, probably reflects their phylogeny. The magnitude of ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Gibbs A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), like all herpesviruses, persists in the host after primary infection, with reactivation often occurring as a result of immunosuppression. The lack of a model system has made analysis of HCMV latency and reactivation difficult. However, the ability to analyse which specific cell types in v...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Sinclair J,Sissons P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3 mM n-butyrate, which effectively induces synthesis of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) antigens in the producer P3HR-1 cell line, inhibited the transformation of umbilical cord blood lymphocytes by EBV. The drug inhibited both EBNA synthesis and stimulation of host cell DNA synthesis by strain B95-8. This effect was less pr...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Roubalová K,Roubal J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated persistent infection of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed lymphoblastoid cells with dengue virus using a transmission electron microscope. Most of the infected cells kept an intact morphology with only a few virus particles in the cytoplasm, but without any indication of active viral replication. So...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Takasaki T,Takada K,Kurane I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrapie brain homogenate was mixed with mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro. After 2 h of incubation at 37 degrees, a portion of the scrapie infectivity was associated with macrophages. In contrast, very little infectivity was associated with kidney cells that had been exposed to scrapie brain homogenate. After incu...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Carp RI,Callahan SM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Some patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection fail to achieve complete early virologic response (EVR) despite a marked decrease in HCV RNA at 4 weeks. We investigated the characteristics and final treatment outcomes of this patient subpopulation. METHODS:A total of 516 patients with HCV genoty...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Toyoda H,Kumada T,Shimada N,Takaguchi K,Ide T,Sata M,Ginba H,Matsuyama K,Izumi N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5 patients with primary genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection were studied prospectively for the production of serum antibody reactivity as measured by the virus micro-neutralization test (NT), micro-solid phase radioimmunometric assay (micro-SPRIA), and antibody-dependent cellular-cytotoxic (ADCC) test. ADCC a...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kohl S,Adam E,Matson DO,Kaufman RH,Dreesman GR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) core antigen (HBcAg) detected by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique was present in the nucleus and cytoplasm of some infected hepatocytes but only in the cytoplasm of other hepatocytes. When cells expressing HBcAg were examined by in situ hybridization for the presence of HBV DNA, the intr...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Gowans EJ,Burrell CJ,Jilbert AR,Marmion BP

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes current strategies for the treatment of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection/diseases in high-risk patients such as transplant recipients and AIDS patients. Since the major drugs ganciclovir (Cytovene), foscarnet (Foscavir) and cidofovir (Vistide) are frequently associated with severe side effe...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Vogel JU,Scholz M,Cinatl J Jr

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports documented the recovery of a DNA virus from a patient with posttransfusion non-A-G hepatitis and named TT virus (TTV). Although the virus was initially detected as a causative agent of hepatitis, there is doubt about its pathogenicity. The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between TTV ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Suzuki F,Chayama K,Tsubota A,Akuta N,Someya T,Kobayashi M,Suzuki Y,Saitoh S,Arase Y,Ikeda K,Kumada H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many efforts are currently focused on functional treatment of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). This can be done by suppressing the secretion of HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). Scientific communities are very interested in natural products in that respect. OBJECTIVE:Use of root extract of Havachoobe (Onosma dichroa...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Mohebbi A,Azadi F,Hashemi MM,Askari FS,Razzaghi N

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our work was to determine if aerosols of Junin virus can infect rhesus macaques and if the disease is the same as that produced by virus inoculated parenterally. The 6 macaques exposed to the virus by aerosol became acutely ill during the 3rd week after exposure, and all died. Three died by day 21, whil...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kenyon RH,McKee KT Jr,Zack PM,Rippy MK,Vogel AP,York C,Meegan J,Crabbs C,Peters CJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proposed family Toroviridae is characterized by eveloped, peplomer-bearing particles containing an elongated tubular nucleocapsid with helical symmetry. The capsid may bend into an open torus, conferring a biconcave disk or kidney-shaped morphology to the virion (largest diameter 120-140 nm) or the capsid may be s...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Horzinek MC,Flewett TH,Saif LJ,Spaan WJ,Weiss M,Woode GN

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amyloid-like isoform of a 33- to 34-kD glycoprotein, termed as the scrapie prion protein (PrPsc), plays a critical role in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies of animals and humans. It has even been suggested to present the responsible infectious agent. This protein is a posttranslationally modified form of t...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Tanji K,Saeki K,Matsumoto Y,Takeda M,Hirasawa K,Doi K,Matsumoto Y,Onodera T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite frequent statements to the contrary, there are good animal models for AIDS. In this review, we summarize the properties of one of the most useful animal models: infection of rhesus monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). The SIVs are an extensive group of HIV-related lentiviruses of nonhuman primates...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Desrosiers RC,Ringler DJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in infancy and early childhood causes acute bronchiolitis and exacerbates bronchial asthma. Eosinophil infiltration may contribute to airway obstruction in RSV infection. OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that RSV affects eosinophil function. METHODS:Eosinophil act...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Tachibana A,Kimura H,Kato M,Nako Y,Kozawa K,Morikawa A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of Aleutian disease virus (ADV) replication in mink lymphocytes was followed by the analysis of virus-specific antigens, infectious virus, and viral DNA. Stimulation with pokeweed mitogen (PWM; 20 micrograms/ml) increased the synthesis of ADV DNA in cultivated cells of the B-cell fraction. Maximum virus t...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kaaden OR,Haas L,Löchelt M,Roth S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00