Electron microscopic study of nuclear and nucleolar changes in cells infected with canine distemper virus (CDV)

1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 183-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Poste
Author(s):  
Joanne Howard ◽  
A. L. Chapman

It has been demonstrated by a number of investigators that certain strains of canine distemper virus (CDV), when grown in an appropriate monolayer of culture cells, manifest characteristic cytopathic effects (CPE). These cells are distinguishable by the appearance of eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusions, nuclear inclusions, syncytial formation and/or spindal-shaped cells. Although virus particles have been described using a negative stain, the structure of the sectioned virus and inclusion body has not been reported. Therefore a light and electron microscopic study of the distemper inclusion body was undertaken to determine its developmental morphology. The Ondersproot strain of canine distemper virus was inoculated into monolayers of Hep2 cells. The cells were harvested at various times between 1 and 168 hours post-infection, centrifuged at 2,500 RPM for 15 minutes, fixed for one hour in glutaraldehyde and stored overnight in.2M buffered sucrose.


1956 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Flewett

Sections of chorio-allantoic membranes fixed at intervals after infection with large doses of vaccinia virus showed almost homogeneous areas appearing in the cytoplasm after 4 hr.; these areas contained immature forms of virus which had a thin surface membrane and an eccentric ‘nucleoid’, and were surrounded by mitochondria. Mature forms of virus, having a larger central nucleus-like structure and a thicker cortex, were first found in areas of virus growth 10 hr. after inoculation. Similar immature and mature forms were found in cells infected with fowl-pox, myxomatosis and ectromelia viruses. It is concluded that the immature forms are of low infectivity or not infective.


Author(s):  
Glennelle Washington ◽  
Philip P. McGrath ◽  
Peter R. Graze ◽  
Ivor Royston

Herpes-like viruses were isolated from rhesus monkey peripheral blood leucocytes when co-cultivated with WI-38 cells. The virus was originally designated rhesus leucocyte-associated herpesvirus (LAHV) and subsequently called Herpesvirus mulatta (HVM). The original isolations were from juvenile rhesus monkeys shown to be free of antibody to rhesus cytomegalic virus. The virus could only be propagated in human or simian fibroblasts. Use of specific antisera developed from HVM showed no relationship between this virus and other herpesviruses. An electron microscopic study was undertaken to determine the morphology of Herpesvirus mulatta (HVM) in infected human fibroblasts.


Author(s):  
M. J. Kramer ◽  
Alan L. Coykendall

During the almost 50 years since Streptococcus mutans was first suggested as a factor in the etiology of dental caries, a multitude of studies have confirmed the cariogenic potential of this organism. Streptococci have been isolated from human and animal caries on numerous occasions and, with few exceptions, they are not typable by the Lancefield technique but are relatively homogeneous in their biochemical reactions. An analysis of the guanine-cytosine (G-C) composition of the DNA from strains K-1-R, NCTC 10449, and FA-1 by one of us (ALC) revealed significant differences and DNA-DNA reassociation experiments indicated that genetic heterogeneity existed among the three strains. The present electron microscopic study had as its objective the elucidation of any distinguishing morphological characteristics which might further characterize the respective strains.


Author(s):  
L.A. Dell

A new method has been developed which readily offers the microscopist a possibility for both light and electron microscopic study of selected cells from the cerebrospinal fluid. Previous attempts to examine these cells in the spinal fluid at the ultrastructural level were based on modifications of cell pellet techniques developed for peripheral blood. These earlier methods were limited in application by the number of cells in spinal fluid required to obtain a sufficient size pellet and by the lack of an easy method of cellular identification between the light and electron microscopic level. The newly developed method routinely employs microscope slides coated with Siliclad and tungsten oxide for duplicate cytocentrifuge preparations of diagnostic spinal fluid specimens. Work done by Kushida and Suzuki provided a basis for our use of the metal oxide.


Author(s):  
K. C. Liu ◽  
S. F. Tsay

In the histologic and electron microscopic study of the male reproductive system of bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, a vesicular system associated with spermiogenesis was observed. It appeared in the lumenal space of the seminiferous tubule (Fig. 1), in the heads of spermatids (Fig. 2), associated with the chromatins of the spermatid (Fig. 4). As deduced from sections, this vesicular system consisted of vesicles of various size or a large group of waving and twisted tubules (Fig. 3), After routine procedure of treatment for electron microscopy, the lumens of both of the vesicles and tubules were electron lucent.In human, vesicles and vesicular system associated with reproductive cell and tissue were reported. In abnormal spermiogenesis, flower-like body, actually vesicles, and giant vesicle associated with the head of spermatid were observed. In both cases the number of vesicle was limited from a single one to a few.


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