Publication Date:
1984-07-06
Description:
A strain of lymphadenopathy associated retrovirus ( LAV ) passaged in vitro was used to infect a lymphoblastoid cell line obtained by transformation with Epstein-Barr virus of B lymphocytes from a healthy donor. The virus produced from this line (B- LAV ) was also able to grow at a high rate in some other lymphoblastoid lines and in a Burkitt lymphoma line. This adapted strain retained the biochemical, ultrastructural, and antigenic characteristics of the original strain, as well as its tropism for normal T4+ lymphocytes. It is thus possible to grow LAV in large quantities that can be used for the preparation of diagnostic reagents. The interaction between such a human retrovirus and Epstein-Barr virus, a DNA virus, may have some implication for the pathology of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and related diseases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Montagnier, L -- Gruest, J -- Chamaret, S -- Dauguet, C -- Axler, C -- Guetard, D -- Nugeyre, M T -- Barre-Sinoussi, F -- Chermann, J C -- Brunet, J B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Jul 6;225(4657):63-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6328661" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/microbiology
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Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
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B-Lymphocytes/*microbiology
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Cell Line
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Cell Transformation, Viral
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Deltaretrovirus/metabolism
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Herpesvirus 4, Human/*metabolism
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Humans
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Retroviridae/*growth & development
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T-Lymphocytes/microbiology
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*Virus Replication
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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