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- Title
Assessing avian leukosis virus proviral load and lesion correlates in fowl glioma-inducing virus–infected Japanese bantam chickens.
- Authors
Nishiura, Hayate; Nakajima, Tomoe; Saito, Shun; Kato, Azusa; Hatai, Hitoshi; Ochiai, Kenji
- Abstract
The fowl glioma-inducing virus prototype (FGVp) and its variants, which belong to avian leukosis virus subgroup A (ALV-A), induce cardiomyocyte abnormalities and gliomas in chickens. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these myocardial changes remain unclear, and ALV-induced tumorigenesis, which is caused by proviral insertional mutagenesis, does not explain the early development of cardiac changes in infected chickens. We established a quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay to measure ALV-A proviral loads in the brains and hearts of FGV-infected Japanese bantam chickens and compared these results with morphologic lesions. Four of 22 bantams had both gliomas and cardiac lesions. Hearts with cardiac lesions had a higher proviral load (10.3 ± 2.7 proviral copies/nucleus) than those without cardiac lesions (0.4 ± 0.4), suggesting that the proviral load in hearts is correlated with the frequency of myocardial changes. Our qPCR method may be useful in the study of ALV-induced cardiomyocyte abnormalities.
- Subjects
AVIAN leukosis; HEART; POULTRY; CHICKENS; FOWLING; GLIOMAS; CUCUMBER mosaic virus
- Publication
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 5, p484
- ISSN
1040-6387
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10406387231186954