机构地区: 华中农业大学
出 处: 《生物化学与生物物理学报》 2003年第4期325-330,共6页
摘 要: 通过人工感染伪狂犬病病毒阴性的健康仔猪 ,取实验组和阴性对照组仔猪的咽部扁桃体、胸腺、颈部淋巴结、腹股沟淋巴结、大脑、小脑、嗅球、三叉神经节等组织作样本。通过电子显微镜观察、DNA梯谱和原位末端脱氧核苷酸标记等试验进行细胞凋亡分析 ,结果发现实验组仔猪的淋巴组织细胞呈现典型的细胞凋亡的特征 ,而神经组织中无。这一结果表明 :伪狂犬病病毒感染诱导大量淋巴细胞凋亡 ,造成仔猪免疫功能低下 ,导致大量死亡 ,这可能是伪狂犬病病毒急性感染致病机制之一 ;同时也证实伪狂犬病病毒通过抑制神经细胞的凋亡 ,在神经组织中建立潜伏感染并终生带毒。 To study induction or inhibition of apoptosis by pseudorabies virus (PrV) Ea strain in suckling piglets, Aujeszky’s disease was replicated by artificially inoculating 15 day-old piglets with PrV-Ea strain. Various tissue sections, such as lymphoid tissues and nervous tissues were collected. Transmission electron microscopy, DNA fragmentation assay and in situ terminal-deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) staining were carried to analyze apoptotic cells. It was shown that piglets infected with PrV-Ea strain took on typical clinical symptoms and apoptotic cells were found in lymphoid tissues but not in nerve tissues. The results indicated that the PrV infection caused apoptosis in a big number of lymphatic cells, thus leading to death of suckling pigs due to lowered immune function. It might play an important role in PrV’s attack on immune system. A latent infection of pseudorabies virus was established in the neuronal tissue cells by inhibition of nervous cell apoptosis; this might be the way for PrV to establish latent infection, leading to sporadic recurrence of the disease.