Sequence Similarities between Viroids and Human MicroRNAs.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype and the possible association between genotype and HCV-associated liver disease in Indonesia. METHODS:32 anti-HCV-positive asymptomatic carriers (AC), 55 chronic hepatitis (CH), 41 liver cirrhosis (LC), and 35 hepato...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Utama A,Budiarto BR,Monasari D,Octavia TI,Chandra IS,Gani RA,Hasan I,Sanityoso A,Miskad UA,Yusuf I,Lesmana LA,Sulaiman A,Tai S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) induces chronic liver disease in hosts which can eventually progresses to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, progression of liver disease is slower in patients with persistently normal levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) than in those with active hepatitis. Although dis...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kanto T,Inoue M,Miyazaki M,Itose I,Miyatake H,Sakakibara M,Yakushijin T,Kaimori A,Oki C,Hiramatsu N,Kasahara A,Hayashi N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four tetraploid cell lines were derived from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-carrying, nonproducer Burkitt lymphoma line Raji after colcemide treatment. EBV early antigen (EA) was induced by P3HR-1 virus superinfection and by iododeoxyuridine treatment. Inducibility was reduced in all tetraploid lines compared to the nea...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Shapiro IM,Andersson-Anvret M,Klein G

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the significant medical advances which have taken place in the last decades, acute diarrhoea cases remain a public health issue of major significance, with gastroenteritis agents being associated with severe symptoms in adults and high morbidity in infants and children. Regarding rotaviruses, while children ar...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Vontas A,Hadjicristodoulou C,Krikelis V,Petinaki E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three independently isolated herpes simplex virus type 1 recombinant viruses containing a deletion of approximately 14 kilobase pairs, representing greater than 95% of the internal repeat DNA sequences, were analyzed for their pathogenicity in mice. The recombinant viruses were found to be avirulent, exhibiting drasti...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Jenkins FJ,Martin JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two DNA-negative temperature-sensitive mutants of human cytomegalovirus strain AD169 were shown to be deficient in induction of several prominent viral polypeptides when grown in human foreskin fibroblasts under nonpermissive conditions. The use of a monospecific polyclonal antiserum allowed recognition of a further d...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Radsak K,Kaiser CJ,Haustein D,Rapp F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of human cells transformed by SV40 were found to release infectious virus, even after several passages in vitro. Virus shedding by these cultures did not depend on propagation of virus from cell to cell, as it was not affected by anti-SV40 antiserum that could effectively block virus propagation in acutely in...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Lomax CA,Thirion JP,Bourgaux-Ramoisy D

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We studied the ability of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) to infect peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) pretreated with or without Th2-cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4) in vitro. METHODS:Adherent cells and nonadherent cells were obtained from PBMC. We inoculated these cells with HCMV at concentrations ranging...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kitajima H,Okubo Y,Honda J,Yonemitsu J,Yoshida N,Fumimori T,Oizumi K

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between enteroviral infection and myocardial tissue apoptosis during the development of viral myocarditis in a murine model. METHODS:C3H/HeJ mice were inoculated with two strains of coxsackievirus B3, specifically CVB3 (cardiovirulent Nancy strain) and CVB3/0 (noncardiovirulen...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Joo CH,Hong HN,Kim EO,Im JO,Yoon SY,Ye JS,Moon MS,Kim D,Lee H,Kim YK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian hepatitis E virus (HEV), the etiological agent of hepatitis E in humans, is a recently discovered infectious agent. It was identified for the first time in 1983 using electron microscopy on a faecal specimen of a person infected with non-A, non-B enterically-transmitted hepatitis. Based on retrospective and ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Kaba M,Moal V,Gérolami R,Colson P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have recently demonstrated that an oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) can enter HIV particles and form a local hybrid at the highly conserved polypurine tract (PPT), the target site of the ODN. This hybrid is recognized by the retrovirus-specific RNase H, which is a virion-associated enzyme. It cleaves the RNA at...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Heinrich J,Schols D,Moelling K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the diagnostic value of nucleic-acid-sequence-based amplification (NASBA) for the detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in transplant recipients, we compared immediate early 1 (IE1) and late pp67 mRNA detection by NASBA with the antigenemia assay, PCR and viral culture in 72 renal transplant (RTx) r...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Goossens VJ,Blok MJ,Christiaans MH,van Hooff JP,Sillekens P,Höckerstedt K,Lautenschlager I,Middeldorp JM,Bruggeman CA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In chicken cells infected by Sindbis virus and exposed to a variety of membrane-active compounds, virus release was inhibited. In infected cells exposed to antiserum directed against the virion glycoproteins E1 or E2, retinol, cortisone, Pb++ or insulin, the processing of two Sindbis virus precursor polypeptides which...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Scupham RK,Sagik BP,Bose HR Jr

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To express E1 glycoprotein of rubella virus (RuV) strain JR23 in yeast and develop a diagnostic assay using expressed E1 protein as coating antigen in comparison with other diagnostic assays. METHODS:cDNA of E1 open reading frame of RuV was PCR amplified using plasmid pMD18-T-E1 as template and cloned into ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Wen H,Wang Z

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genetic diversity is one of the most important features of HIV-1 infections and the result of error accumulation during reverse transcription and of high viral turnover. HIV-1 reverse transcription is influenced by factors such as the level of nucleotides and/or the cellular...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Russo CT,Alkmim W,Munerato P,Zukurov J,Maricato JT,Sucupira MC,Diaz RS,Janini LM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiological survey of the human syncytial (foamy) virus was done by means of an indirect immunofluorescence test on 1,717 sera from nine different Pacific island territories. The specificity of the reaction was verified by neutralization tests. The study indicated that the virus is ubiquitous in this part of...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Loh PC,Matsuura F,Mizumoto C

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 574 stool samples from children with gastroenteritis were obtained from different hospitals in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic during 2005-2006. Diarrhea stool samples were analyzed for rotavirus by ELISA and typed by the RT-PCR-based method. Unusual strains were detected: G1P...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Bourdett-Stanziola L,Ortega-Barria E,Espinoza F,Bucardo F,Jimenez C,Ferrera A

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Adsorption and kinetic parameters, latent period, burst size and burst time, are characteristics of phage/host systems and can be affected by several environmental factors. As only few studies have focused on temperate dairy phages, we characterized these parameters on temperate Lactobacillus paracasei ...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Mercanti DJ,Ackermann HW,Quiberoni A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Characterization of the phylogeny and diversity of human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) genotype ON1 that occurred during its early evolution (within the first 3.5 years since the detection of the first ON1 strains). ON1 strains have a 72-nucleotide-long in-frame duplication within the second hypervariabl...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Ivancic-Jelecki J,Forcic D,Mlinaric-Galinovic G,Tesovic G,Nikic Hecer A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins exhibit antiviral activity against a wide variety of RNA and DNA viruses. In the present report, we describe the effect of cyclopentenone prostaglandin A(1) (PGA(1)) on Mayaro virus replication in Vero cells. Virus yield was significantly reduced at nontoxic concentrations which did not suppress DNA, RN...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Burlandy FM,Rebello MA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five distinct antigenic sites recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes in H-2b mice have been identified on simian virus 40 (SV40) T antigen. Cocultivation of SV40-transformed cells with cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) clones specific for epitopes I-IV results in the selection of variants which show a loss of either epitope...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Tanaka Y,Tevethia SS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of bleach (hypochlorite) as a disinfectant for drug injection equipment in the intravenous-drug-using population was recommended early in the HIV-1/AIDS epidemic. Epidemiological studies have challenged the use of bleach as an effective measure to prevent HIV-1 transmission. However, in vitro HIV-1 coculture s...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Contoreggi C,Jones S,Simpson P,Lange WR,Meyer WA 3rd

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were used to probe the antigenicity of the HIV-1 transmembrane protein of 41 kD (gp41) by antibody-reactive peptide scanning (Pepscan). Eleven distinct sequential antibody-binding sites were defined by testing reactivity to 339 ove...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Goudsmit J,Meloen RH,Brasseur R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aims of this study were to determine the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes in hepatitis delta virus (HDV) RNA-positive patients and to characterize the HBV nucleotide sequences that may be found on a distant island of Japan. METHODS:This study included three patients with chronic hepatitis who were posi...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Moriyama M,Taira M,Matsumura H,Aoki H,Mikuni M,Kaneko M,Shioda A,Iwaguchi K,Arai S,Ichijima S,Iwasaki H,Tanaka N,Abe K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6/94 virus, isolated originally from a multiple sclerosis (MS) patient, was compared antigenically with related parainfluenza type 1 strains. These included two Sendai strains of mouse and two Sendai strains of reported human origin as well as the HA2 strain. By standard hemagglutination inhibition (HI) or hemadsorpti...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Lief FS,Loh W,Meulen VT,Koprowski H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory regions for transcription and replication of several hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomes from 19 patients having various forms of HBV infection were sequenced. Predominant mutations were found to occur naturally in nucleotide positions 1762 (A to T) and 1764 (G to A) in chronic hepatitis patients and in asy...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Nishizono A,Hiraga M,Kohno K,Sonoda YT,Terao H,Fujioka T,Nasu M,Mifune K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A singly enveloped nuclear polyhedrosis virus (SNPV) of the white-marked tussock moth, Orgyia leucostigma, was successfully grown in four continuous cell lines developed from minced neonate larvae of this insect. Level of infection in two cell lines, IPRI-OL-12 and IPRI-OL-13, was 65-90%, but in the other two, IPRI-OL...

journal_title：Intervirology

authors： Sohi SS,Percy J,Arif BM,Cunningham JC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00