Alkaline phosphatase activity in goblet cells in the small intestine of piglets experimentally infected with the coccidium Isospora suis

Alkaline phosphatase activity (EC. 3.1.3.1.) in goblet cells was investigated in the small intestine of 16 gnotobiotic piglets infected one day after delivery (DAD) by different rates of oocysts of Isospora suis coccidia. At a high infection rate of I. suis (750,000) the goblet cells were found to be highly positive to alkaline phosphatase on day 3 to day 4 after infection (DAI). In piglets infected by a low infection rate of I. suis oocysts (100,000) the activity of alkaline phosphatase activity in goblet cells was proved on days 4 to 10 after infection. In the first group of piglets, the positive goblet cells prevailed in the middle region of jejunum, with the peak on 4th DAI. It the second group of piglets a marked increase in the alkaline phosphatase activity was recorded in the goblet cells in the posterior part of jejunum on days 4 to 5 after infection and on 10th DAI. No alkaline phosphatase activity in the goblet cells was demonstrated in the control gnotobiotic piglets at the age of two to seven days.     

Lymphocyte subpopulations in peripheral blood of lambs experimentally infected with bovine respiratory syncytial virus

The lymphocyte subpopulations of peripheral blood of normal lambs and lambs experimentally infected with bovine respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) were analysed by flow cytometry, using a panel of monoclonal antibodies against specific lymphocyte epitopes. Experimental infection with bovine RSV was characterized by a significant rise in SBU-T8+ (CD8+ or cytotoxic) T cells and a significant reduction in SBU-T4+ (CD4+ or helper) T cells and B (LCA p220+) lymphocytes (P less than 0.05). The helper/suppressor (CD4/CD8) ratio was reduced from 3.91 on the day of experimental infection to 1.13 on 10 days after experimental infection (P less than 0.001). The total number of SBU-T4+ (CD4+) and B cells returned to pre-inoculation values 14 days after experimental infection but the helper/suppressor ratio remained depressed up to 21 days post-inoculation.     

Mucus synthesis in the goblet cells of the small intestine in experimental infection with the coccidium Isospora suis in piglets

The state of mucus synthesis in the goblet cells of the small intestine was studied in conventional piglets infected with a dose of 200,000 oocytes of the coccidium Isospora suis the first and fifth day after parturition. The synthesis of mucus and its chemical characteristics undergo significant changes during the third and fourth day after infection. The activity of acid and neutral mucous substances declines; their level and the physiological synthetic function of goblet cells begin to return to the normal during the period starting on the eight to tenth day after infection. However, there were no fully functioning goblet cells in the broken numerical ratio even at the end of the period of investigation, i.e. the 13th day after infection. The thin surface layer of mucus remained almost unchanged within the whole extent of the small intestine parts studied.     

Activity of mucosubstances and the goblet cell count in the large intestine of piglets infected with the coccidium, Isospora suis

In a group of conventional and gnotobiotic piglets experimentally infected with the Isospora suis coccidia the quantitative presence of acid and neutral mucous substances in the large intestine and the counts of goblet cells in the surface mucosa and in Lieberkühnis crypts (in the following text called just the crypts) were investigated. In conventional piglets infected with the dose of 200,000 oocysts of I. suis coccidia the lowest content of acid mucous substances was recorded from the eighth to tenth day after infection (DAI). A decrease in the activity of neutral mucous substances was somewhat slower. The lowest count of goblet cells was found on DAI 9, especially on the surface mucosa (4.89 to 4.91 goblet cells per 10 enterocytes). There was observed no difference in the piglets infected the first and fifth day after parturition (DAP). Gnotobiotic piglets infected with the dose of 100,000 oocysts of I. suis coccidia on DAP 1 showed the lowest content of mucous substances in the large intestine from the ninth to tenth day after infection. Unlike the conventional piglets, in gnotobiotic piglets there was recorded a decrease in the content of acid and neutral mucous substances. The gnotobiotic piglets had the lowest counts of goblet cells in the surface mucosa (10:4.57) and in the crypts (10:7.71) on DAI 9. As to the quantitative proportions, in the conventional and gnotobiotic piglets neutral mucous substances prevailed on the other days (DAI 3-7 and DAI 11), similarly like on DAI 8. The results of this investigation revealed a functional disease of the large intestine in conventional and gnotobiotic piglets infected experimentally with the Isospora suis coccidia.     

Histochemistry of nucleoside phosphatases and phosphoglucomutase in the small intestine during coccidiosis in piglets]

The first day after birth, 22 conventional piglets were experimentally infected with the oocysts of the coccidia of I. suis (infection dose 200,000 oocysts). The activity of 5-nucleotidase (5-ribonucleotide phosphohydrolase, EC.3.1.3.5) and phosphoglucomutase (alpha-D-glucoso-1-phosphate phosphotransferase, EC.5.4.2.2) was densitometrically assessed in the mucosa of the small intestines of these piglets. Enzyme activities were studied in the infected piglets during the 2nd to 10th day after infection. The same histochemical examination was simultaneously performed in the intestinal mucosa of five control conventional piglets at an age of 2-14 days. 5-nucleotidase and phosphoglucomutase were found to have a high density in the mucosa of the small intestine of the control piglets: the high-density locations of these enzymes include, first of all, the supranuclear area of the absorption cells, the microvillous zone of enterocytes and the smooth muscle elements of lamina muscularis mucosae. The experimentally infected piglets showed a marked decline of the density of both enzymes during the infection. The deficit affected, for a transient period, the microvillous zone and the supranuclear region of enterocytes; the musculature of the mucous layer was affected permanently. The inactivity was more protracted in the case phosphoglutamase (especially 5 to 9 days after infection). The density of 5-nucleotidase showed a partial return to the normal already the 7th day after infection, with an interruption of resumption of activity on the 10th day. Resumption of enzyme activity in the lamina muscularis mucosae was not recorded during the infection. In the three locations under study, the density of none of the enzymes did reach parameters comparable with the controls at the end of the trial (10 days after infection).     

Neural changes in recurrent infection of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus in calves treated with dexamethasone.

Recurrent infection by infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) virus was induced in calves by dexamethasone (DM) treatment (given 5 days) at 5 months after primary infection. The virus appeared in nasal secretions of the calves on the 4th day after initiation of DM treatment and continued until the 9th day. The calves were killed on the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th days after DM treatment was started for examination by histopathologic and immunofluorescent antibody techniques. The most significant neural change was trigeminal ganglionitis with neuronophagia, which was observed from the 3rd to the 11th day. Significantly, the extent of changes in the trigeminal ganglion and medulla oblongata corresponded to the amount of DM treatment administered. The IBR virus antigen was first observed in the trigeminal ganglion cells, and thereafter, it was detected in the Schwann cells, satellite cells, neuroglia cells, and nasal mucosa until the 10th day. These observations indicate that the IBR virus is capalbe of producing a persistent infection in the trigeminal ganglion and that trigeminal ganglionitis may be a characteristic lesion for inducing the reactivation of lagent IBR virus.     

Size Distribution of Dispersed Luteal Cells During Oestrous Cycle in Angora Goats

The present study examines the size distribution of the goat steroidogenic luteal cells throughout the oestrous cycle. Corpora lutea (CL) were collected after laparatomy on days 5, 10 and 16 of the oestrous cycle. Luteal cells were isolated from CL by collagenase digestion. Steriodogenic luteal cells were identified by staining of the cells for 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity, a marker for steroidogenic cells. Luteal cells having steroidogenic capacity covered a wide spectrum of sizes, ranging from 5 to 37.5 microm in diameter. There was a significant increase in mean cell diameters (p < 0.01) as CL aged. The mean cell diameter on day 5 was 11.55 +/- 0.12 microm, which was significantly increased and reached up to 19.18 +/- 0.24 mum by day 16 of the oestrous cycle. The ratio of large to small luteal cells was 0.06:1.0 on day 5 of the oestrous cycle. This ratio increased to 0.78:1.0 by day 16 of the oestrous cycle. Luteal cell size on days 5, 10 and 16 of the oestrous cycle reached its maximum at 7.5, 10 and 35 microm in diameter, respectively. Development of CL is associated with an increase in luteal cell size in goats. It is likely that small luteal cells could develop into large luteal cells as CL becomes older during oestrous cycle in goats.     

Protection against and establishment of Dictyocaulus viviparus following primary infection at different dose levels

In two experiments, calves were primary infected with 1 of 12 (Experiment 1) or 6 (Experiment 2) different dose levels of Dictyocaulus viviparus infective larvae (L3), ranging from 5 to 2000 L3. To study the level of protection induced by the primary infection a challenge infection with 2000 L3 was given on day 10 (Experiment 1) or day 35 (Experiment 2). In both experiments, challenge control calves were included. Eleven days later, the challenge calves were necropsied for worm counts. Results were compared with predictions from a simulation model. Establishment of the primary infection was dose independent, lying on average in the range of 20-30%. The ratio female:male worms in the counts from the primary or from the challenge infection was consistently close to 1:1 irrespective of primary infection dose level or protection having developed in some of the calves. Level of early protection (10 days after a primary infection-Experiment 1) against establishment of the challenge infection depended significantly on primary infection dose level (P<0.01). At 10 days, after a primary infection, low dose levels did not result in protection against a challenge infection. In contrast, similarly low dose levels did result in partial protection, 35 days after the primary infection. Results confirmed that our provisional simulation model satisfactorily predicts primary infection outcomes, but that it does not accurately predict levels of protection and immunity against re-infections.     

Establishment of Model for Oxidative Stress in Mice Immune Cells Induced by PCV2 in vivo

The aim of this experiment was to establish the oxidative stress model of immune cells in mice induced by PCV2. Optimal infection titer and time of PCV2 were selected. On the 1st,2nd and 3rd day or 1st, 3rd,5th and 7th day,Kunming mice were treated with 10⁰ PCV2 or 10^-1 PCV2 by 3 ways (intraperitoneal injection, intranasal administration and intragastrical administration). 7, 14, 21 d post administration, we killed the mice. Reactive oxygen species (ROS),total glutathione (T-GSH),reduced glutathione (GSH),oxidized glutathione (GSSG) levels and xanthine oxidase (XOD), myeloperoxidase (MPO) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) activity were determined to investigate the relationship between the infection time point and the change of ROS level after PCV2 infection. Thus to establish mice immune cells oxidative stress model. The results showed that infection with 10⁰ PCV2 virus in 3 ways every day both at day 1, 2, 3 and 1 mL per mouse was the best program for the follow-up experiment. The intracellular level of ROS of mice infected with PCV2 was extremely significantly increased both at 7, 14 and 21 d (P < 0.01);7 and 14 d post infection, GSH level of PCV2 infected mice had significant difference compared with that of control group (P < 0.05). 7 d after infection, GSSG level was extremely significantly higher than that of control group (P < 0.01); 7 d after infection, T-GSH level was significantly lower than that of control group (P < 0.05), T-GSH was extremely significantly lower than that of control group at 14 d post infection (P < 0.01). XOD, MPO and iNOS activity between PCV2 infection group and blank control group were significantly different at 7 d post infection (P < 0.05). It suggested that PCV2 successfully infected mice, experimental infection programme was Kunming mice were treated with 10⁰ PCV2 by three ways (intraperitoneal injection, intranasal administration and intragastrical administration) both at the 1st,2nd and 3rd day of the experiment.The best condition to establish the oxidative stress model of immune cells in mice was using 10⁰ PCV2 to infect for 7 days.     

猪圆环病毒2型诱导小鼠体内免疫细胞氧化胁迫模型的建立

试验旨在建立猪圆环病毒2型（PCV2）诱导的小鼠体内免疫细胞氧化胁迫模型。筛选PCV2感染剂量及感染时间,采用腹腔注射、滴鼻和灌胃3种途径联合方式于第1、2、3 天或第1、3、5、7天给予昆明系小鼠感染PCV2病毒原液或10^－1 PCV2病毒液,分别于感染后7、14、21 d剖杀小鼠,测定活性氧（ROS）、总谷胱甘肽（T-GSH）、还原型谷胱甘肽（GSH）、氧化型谷胱甘肽（GSSG）水平及黄嘌呤氧化酶（XOD）、髓过氧化物酶（MPO）、诱导型一氧化氮合酶（iNOS）活性,探讨PCV2感染时间与活性氧水平变化的关系,建立免疫细胞氧化胁迫动物模型。结果显示,第1、2、3天每天经3种途径联合感染PCV2病毒原液,1 mL/只,为后续试验感染最佳方案。PCV2感染小鼠3个时间点细胞内ROS水平较空白对照组均极显著升高（P < 0.01）,感染后7、14 d GSH水平显著降低（P < 0.05）;感染后7 d GSSG水平极显著高于空白对照组（P < 0.01）;感染后7 d T-GSH水平显著低于空白对照组（P < 0.05）,感染后14 d T-GSH水平极显著低于空白对照组（P < 0.01）。感染后7 d脾脏XOD、MPO、iNOS活性与空白对照组相比均存在显著差异（P < 0.05）。结果表明,PCV2成功感染小鼠,试验感染方案为第1、2、3 天每天经3种途径联合感染PCV2病毒原液,1 mL/只,且用PCV2病毒原液感染7 d是建立小鼠体内免疫细胞氧化胁迫模型的最佳条件。     

无血清悬浮培养PK-15细胞及其对猪圆环病毒2型增殖的影响

【目的】 建立基于无血清悬浮培养PK-15细胞生产猪圆环病毒2型（PCV2）疫苗的工艺，提高PCV2疫苗生产效率，降低PCV2疫苗生产成本。【方法】 首先采用直接驯化法对贴壁生长的PK-15细胞进行无血清悬浮培养驯化，并在无血清悬浮培养体系下，采用连续传代的方法考察驯化成功的PK-15细胞的传代和生长稳定性。研究不同感染复数（MOI）（0.10、0.05、0.01和0.001）和不同PK-15细胞接种密度（CDI）（1.0×10⁶、3.0×10⁶、5.0×10⁶/mL）对PCV2增殖的影响，同时对感染病毒前后的细胞培养液中葡萄糖、氨基酸及代谢副产物乳酸和氨进行初步分析。【结果】 贴壁PK-15细胞经过30 d的直接驯化可以快速适应无血清悬浮培养，且驯化过程中细胞平均比生长速率由0.1 d^-1增加到0.6 d^-1；悬浮PK-15细胞可以至少连续稳定传15代，连续传代过程中平均比生长速率在0.6 d^-1附近波动，且细胞活率始终>90%；以1.0×10⁶/mL接种，第4天可达到峰值活细胞密度6.2×10⁶/mL，并可维持1 d，第4天前活率均>90%，此后快速下降；病毒增殖最佳工艺参数为：感染复数为0.05，细胞接种密度为1.0×10⁶/mL，最终收获时病毒滴度可达10^6.2TCID₅₀/mL；对细胞感染前后的代谢分析发现，病毒感染后细胞对葡萄糖和多数氨基酸代谢快于感染前，且感染组在感染后72 h附近出现葡萄糖和谷氨酰胺耗竭并伴随代谢副产物乳酸和氨快速积累，之后细胞改变代谢途径并利用乳酸。【结论】 30 d的直接驯化可以获得悬浮PK-15细胞株，PK-15细胞可用于PCV2增殖，结果可为大规模无血清悬浮培养PK-15细胞生产PCV2疫苗提供一定理论和实践基础。     

beta-D-glucosidase in the microvillous zone of small intestine enterocytes in experimental coccidiosis in suckling piglets]

In the small intestine mucosa of 24 gnotobiotic farrows experimentally infected with the oocysts of coccidiosis of Isospora suis (infection administration--100,000 oocysts) on the first day after the delivery, we carried out the microdensitometric evaluation of the activity of beta-D-glucosidase (phlorizin-hydrolase; hetero-beta-galactosidase; lactase-beta-glucosidase complex; EC. 3.2.1.21). Great attention was paid to the topochemistry of enzyme, deposited in a microvillous zone of enterocytes. We studied likewise the activity of beta-D-glucosidase in the striped fringe of enterocytes of the four control gnotobiotic farrows, in the age from 2 to 5 days. We found out that in healthy farrows the reaction product of studied disaccharidase is located in high concentrations in the microvillous zone of absorptive cells of the whole small intestine. We proved a topographic gradient at which the beta-D-glucosidase activity decreases in control farrows the duodenum mucosa in the aboral direction. When using the choice substrate for beta-D-glucosidase (5-Br-4-Cl-beta-indolyl-3-D-glucoside) we did not prove the enzyme deposition in the small intestine wall. The negative enteral effect of coccidiosis I. suis was provable in the farrows experimentally infected already on the first day after the infection (DPI) when the beta-D-glucosidase activity decreased within the whole small intestine by 15% (ileum) and even by 23% (middle jejunum). The activity reduction had been deepening since the first after the infection and it reached its maximum on the 9th day after the infection when the enzyme concentration in the microvillous zone of absorptive cells reached only 11% of the activity level found in control farrows. On the 10th and 11th day after the infection we registered the increase of the density of beta-D-glucosidase reaction product, however the microvillous zone was even in that final stage of experimental infection significantly deficient (31% of intestine mucosa activity of control farrows).     

Effects of epidermal growth factor on atrophic enteritis in piglets induced by experimental porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) promotes gastrointestinal mucosal recovery by stimulating the mitogenic activity of intestinal crypt epithelial cells. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of EGF on atrophic enteritis induced in piglets by experimental infection with porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) strain Dr13. Two groups of 12 conventional, colostrum-deprived, 1-day-old, large White-Duroc cross breed piglets were inoculated orally with PEDV (3 x 10(5) 50% tissue culture infective doses), with or without EGF (10 microg/kg/day, intraperitoneally once daily for 4 days after infection) and compared to 12 uninfected, untreated control piglets. PEDV+EGF piglets had less severe clinical signs than PEDV only piglets at 48 and 60 h post-infection (hpi). Histologically, the ratio of villous height:crypt depth of PEDV+EGF piglets was significantly higher than PEDV only piglets at 36 and 48 hpi. Immunohistochemistry for Ki67 demonstrated increased proliferation in intestinal crypt epithelial cells of PEDV+EGF piglets compared to PEDV only piglets at 36, 48 and 60 hpi. EGF stimulates proliferation of intestinal crypt epithelial cells and promotes recovery from atrophic enteritis in PEDV-infected piglets.     

Early hepatic immune response in rats infected with Fasciola hepatica

We investigated the phenotype of the T cells (CD4+ and CD8+) that produced Th1 (IFN-gamma) and Th2 cytokines (IL-4 and IL-10) during the firsttwo weeks of experimental fasciolosis in rats. We also followed the kinetics of the cytokine and proliferative responses of hepatic mononuclear cells (HMNC) over the same period. We found that HMNC were more numerous in the infected animals than in the controls. The percentage of CD4+ cells increased significantly after infection, whereas the percentage of CD8+ cells did not change. Moreover, the frequency of the cells producing (CP) cytokine changed after infection. The frequency of CP IFN-gamma on 7 days postinfection (pi) was similar to that in control animals. However, the frequency of CP IFN-gamma was clearly lower on day 14 pi, whereas the frequency of CP IL-4 and CP IL-10 had increased. The CP IL-10-were mostly CD4+. Mitogenic stimulation (phorbol myristate acetate/ionomycin) of HMNC led to an increase in the amounts of the Th2 cytokines in the supernatant on days 7 and 14 pi, with the increase more pronounced on day 14. In contrast, IFN-gamma levels also increased by day 7 pi but then decreased to below control levels by day 14. In addition, HMNC proliferation in response to mitogen followed a similar pattern to IFN-gamma production. These findings suggested that, during the first 2 weeks of infection, F hepatica induced a transient ThO cytokine profile followed by downregulation of the cellular response and the induction of a Th2 cytokine profile.     

Synthesis of nonspecific esterase in small intestine enterocytes during experimental coccidiosis in suckling pigs]

The activity of nonspecific esterase (EC. 3.1.1.1.) was evaluated in the small intestine mucosa of 21 conventional piglets infected on day 5 after parturition (DAP) with oocysts of the Eimeria debliecki coccidium (infection dose of 200,000 oocysts) for this evaluation a microdensitometric analysis at the level of enterocytes was used. The same examination was also performed in the small intestine mucosa of four control conventional piglets at the age of 2-5 days (Tab. I). The synthesis of nonspecific esterase in the experimentally infected piglets was followed on day 1 to day 10 after infection (DAI). The activity of nonspecific esterase in the small intestine mucosa was found to decrease in a direction from duodenum absorption cells (D mean 34.15) to caudal ones (Fig. 1); ileum enterocytes have the optical density of the enzyme by 8.2% lower (D mean 31.38). The deposition of nonspecific esterase is localized mainly in the supranuclear zone of enterocytes while in the para- and infranuclear zones of absorption cells its concentration is only minute. In the experimentally infected piglets a marked increase in the optical density of nonspecific esterase of enterocytes was observed as soon as on day 1 after infection when the enzyme concentration increased by 19.4% (Tab. II). The maximum increase in the activity of nonspecific esterase of absorption cells was recorded on DAI 9 when the enzyme D mean value was higher by 165% in comparison with the activity of nonspecific esterase demonstrated in the control piglets (Fig. 2, 3, 4). But at the end of experimental infection (DAI 10) the total density of nonspecific esterase of enterocytes decreased by 38.2%.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

Life cycle of Frenkelia. IV. Pathomorphological findings in the organs of experimentally infected bank voles]

In 1975 the buzzard (Buteo buteo) was found to be the final host of Frenkelia clethrionomyobuteonis. After this discovery it became possible to investigate systematically the pathomorphology of the infection in the intermediate host, the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). Fifty bank voles were infected orally with a suspension of sporocysts recovered from the faeces of experimentally infected buzzards. Each rodent receive 7000 sporocysts. Six controls each were given a faecal suspension from a non-infected buzzard. The voles were killed between 1 and 140 days after infection and examined histologically. Between the 5th and 8th day of the infection during the schizogonic multiplication of the parasite a focal necrosis of liver cells and of the liver parenchyma is observed followed by a reversible resorptive inflammation associated with siderophagia and the occurrence of giant cells. The spleen was spodogenously enlarged up to twice its normal size. There also was haemosiderosis of the bone marrow, the liver and the spleen up to 25 days after infection. At the same time the erythropoiesis in the bone morrow, the spleen and in the lymph nodes increased; there also was a lymphoid hyperplasia in spleen and lymph nodes. About 10 days after infection a reversible infiltration with lymphocytes and plasma cells developed in the liver, heart and brain. This infiltration was again detectable as perivascular and meningeal reactions in the brain after the 49th day after infection. The second asexual multiplication of the parasite was seen histologically in the grey and white matter of the central nervous system after the 18th day of infection. The developing cysts increased in size continuously thereby compressing the surrounding nervous tissue. Disseminated focal necrosis with resorptive inflammatory components was prominent in the parenchyma of the brain after the 49th day of infection. It was possible to differentiate between damage in single organs and systemic pathological lesions. The lesions in single organs were directly connected with the development of parasitic stages in the liver (schizonts) and in the brain (cysts). The generalized lesions occurred in the haemopoietic system after an impairment of the blood during the first asexual multiplication. They also occurred in the immunocytic systems after the first and during the second asexual multiplication and during the relatively late cystic phase of the parasite in the brain. The pathogenesis of the disintegration of blood cells is not clear. The immunocytic reaction can be considered an immunological response of the host against the parasite. The effect of the development of the cysts on the function and structure of the central nervous system is expected to lead to an increasing impairment of the motility of the intermediate host.     

Recrudescence of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus and associated neural changes in calves treated with dexamethasone

Reactivation of infection bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) virus in calves administered dexamethasone (DM) was studied in 2 experiments. At 2, 3, 5, 15, or 30 months after inoculation of the Los Angeles strain of IBR virus, IV injections of DM were given for 5 consecutive days to induce a recurrent infection (experiment 1). Three months after the 1st treatment, a 2nd recurrent infection was induced, using DM with the same doses as used in experiment 1. The virus was excreted from nasal secretions from the 4th to the 10th day after initial treatment with DM, and from the 6th to the 9th day after the 2nd treatment. On pathologic examination, trigeminal ganglionitis, consisting of many proliferated microglia and inflammatory cells, was observed in all DM-treated calves. Moreover, degeneration of the ganglion cells and neuronophagia were prominent features in the calves after the 2nd recurrent infection. These observations indicated that the trigeminal ganglion may be one of the latent sites of IBR virus in calves after intranasal infection and that calves can develop a recrudescent infection after DM treatment several times during their lifetime.     

Bronchoalveolar immune defense in cattle exposed to primary and secondary challenge with bovine viral diarrhea virus

To evaluate immune defense mechanisms against bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), four calves received primary and secondary intrabronchial infections with the cytopathic, type I Singer strain of BVDV. The cellular and humoral responses to these site-specific infections with BVDV were monitored by sequential bronchoalveolar lavages (BAL) conducted prior to infection (day 0, non-infected controls) and on days 4, 7, 10, 17 (day 31, secondary infection), 35, 38, 41, 48 and 62 post-infection. Peak quantities of BVDV were recovered from BAL on day 4. BVDV clearance from the lung was complete between days 17 and 31. Immune clearance of BVDV from the lower airways upon secondary infection was swift, within 4 days, and sustained throughout a 1-month period. Total numbers of BAL CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-lymphocytes increased >200-fold by day 10, and increased to levels >70-fold higher than background by 4 days after a secondary BVDV infection. gammadelta(+) T-lymphocytes increased 100-fold by day 7 and remained at levels at least 10-fold higher than pre-infection throughout the study. B-lymphocytes increased to levels 30-fold greater than pre-infection levels by day 10, and further increased to levels 100-fold higher following secondary BVDV infection. Activation (defined by the phenotype CD25(+)/CD62L(-)) and memory (defined by the phenotype CD45RO(+)/CD45R(-)) profiles of lymphocytes in the lower airways were characterized. Activated subpopulations of CD4(+) and CD8(+) cells increased nearly 300- and 150-fold, respectively, by day 10, and to levels 100- and 50-fold 4 days after the secondary infection. Memory subpopulations of CD4(+) and CD8(+) cells increased to levels 170- and 120-fold, respectively, by day 10, and to levels approximately 400- and 300-fold, respectively, 7 days after the secondary infection. The primary antibody response consisted of increased titers of anti-BVDV-specific IgA in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). A strong secondary antibody response with high levels of anti-BVDV-specific IgA and IgG in BALF before day 4 post-secondary BVDV infection, likely contributed, along with cellular defenses, to the rapid clearance of virus from the lung upon secondary exposure. These results demonstrate that primary infection of the bovine lung with BVDV initiates cell-mediated immune responses capable of clearing the virus within 2-3 weeks. Furthermore, populations of immune-activated and memory T-lymphocytes, combined with BVDV-specific antibody production, contribute to rapid BVDV clearance upon secondary exposure to the virus.     

Early events in the immunopathogenesis of feline retrovirus infections.

Feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are lymphotropic retroviruses that cause a wide range of diseases in domestic cats. Although it is known that both viruses are capable of infecting T lymphocytes and that infected cats are lymphopenic, it was not known how infection with either virus might alter specific lymphocyte subpopulations. Using a panel of monoclonal antibodies to feline lymphocyte subpopulations, we examined, by use of flow cytometric analysis, lymphocyte changes in cats naturally infected with FeLV or FIV and explored the early stages in the immunopathogenesis of experimentally induced infection with these viruses. Both groups of naturally infected cats had T-cell lymphopenia. In the FIV-infected cats, the T-cell decrease was principally attributable to loss of CD4+ cells, whereas CD8+ and B-cell numbers remained normal. This led to inversion of the CD4+ to CD8+ ratio in these cats. In contrast, the T-cell lymphopenia in FeLV-infected cats resulted from decrease in CD4+ and CD8+ cells, which led to a CD4+ to CD8+ ratio within normal limits. Experimentally induced infection with these 2 viruses supported these findings. Infection with FIV induced early (10 weeks after infection), chronic inversion of the CD4+ to CD8+ ratio. In contrast, infection with FeLV did not alter CD4+ to CD8+ ratio in the first 20 weeks after infection.     

牛病毒性腹泻病毒对新西兰白兔致病性分析及E2蛋白免疫效果的评价

【目的】 研究牛病毒性腹泻病毒（BVDV）感染对新西兰白兔的致病性以及BVDV E2重组蛋白的免疫效果。【方法】 将实验室培养保存的BVDV病毒纯化并按照Reed-Muench法测定其病毒滴度。在致病性试验中,将10只新西兰白兔随机分为感染组和对照组,每组5只。感染组用1 mL纯化的BVDV病毒攻毒（滴鼻500 μL、耳缘静脉注射500 μL）,对照组用等体积的生理盐水处理,连续3 d,每天1次,每天观察各组兔的临床症状并测量体温;分别于接种病毒后第6、9、12、15、17天通过耳缘静脉采集血液检测血常规;感染病毒第17天采集鼻拭子进行RT-PCR鉴定,采集后剖杀并采集气管、肺脏、脾脏和小肠组织,制备病理切片观察病理变化。在免疫效果评价试验中,将10只新西兰白兔随机分为免疫组和对照组,每组5只,免疫组用E2重组蛋白（1 mg/只）与佐剂混合后经肌内多点注射免疫新西兰白兔,对照组接种等体积生理盐水;共免疫2次,2次免疫间隔为14 d。在一免后0、7、14、21、28 d采集血清,通过间接ELISA方法检测血清中抗重组蛋白特异性抗体水平;在一免后第28天按致病性试验中方法攻毒,在攻毒第17天采集鼻拭子进行RT-PCR鉴定,采集气管、肺脏、脾脏和小肠组织制备病理切片观察病理变化及免疫组织化学检测。【结果】 纯化后BVDV的病毒滴度为4.16×10⁶ TCID₅₀/mL。与对照组相比,感染组部分新西兰白兔6 d内活动减少,采食略微减少,6 d后逐渐恢复正常,在感染第13天出现腹泻症状,从第5天开始体温略微升高,但均在正常范围内波动。与对照组相比,在攻毒第6和9天,感染组白细胞和血小板分别显著和极显著降低（P<0.05;P<0.01）;在攻毒第12、15和17天,感染组白细胞、血小板和淋巴细胞均极显著降低（P<0.01）。鼻拭子RT-PCR检测为阳性,气管、肺脏、脾脏及小肠组织表现出轻度至重度的组织病理学变化。间接ELISA检测结果表明,在一免后7 d时,血清抗体滴度为1：16~1：32;在一免后28 d时,血清抗体滴度为1：256~1：512;免疫攻毒组新西兰白兔鼻拭子经RT-PCR检测为阴性;组织病理学观察显示,免疫攻毒组气管及肺脏表现出轻微的组织病理学变化。免疫组化检测结果显示,免疫组结果均呈阴性,对照组结果均为阳性。【结论】 通过滴鼻及耳缘静脉注射BVDV的方式可以构建新西兰白兔致病模型,BVDV E2亚单位疫苗能够刺激机体产生特异性抗体,起到免疫防御的作用。