Experimental Studies of the Pathogenesis of Feline Leukemia Virus ...
Abstract Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) infection is transmissible by contact exposure, by oral-nasal or parenteral inoculation, and by congenital exposure of outbred cats to FeLV. The susceptibility vs resistance of cats to FeLV is determined by early containment vs amplification of retroviral replication in target hemolymphatic cells .
In cats that became persistently infected (80% of young cats and 14% of adult cats ), FeLV infection was not contained in the initial lymphoreticular phases 1-3, and extensive virus replication occurred in the germinal cell populations of lymphoid, hematopoietic, and epithelial tissues (phases 3-6).
Feline Leukemia Virus
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV), which is subclassified into three subgroups of A, B and C, is a pathogenic retrovirus in cats . FeLV-A is minimally pathogenic, FeLV-C can cause pure red cell aplasia, and FeLV-B is associated with a variety of pathogenic properties such as lymphoma, leukemia and anemia. FeLV-induced neoplasms are caused, at least in part, by somatically acquired insertional ...
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Long-term follow up of feline leukemia virus infection and characterization of viral RNA loads using molecular methods in tissues of cats with different infection outcomes.
Introduction Feline leukaemia virus is a gamma retrovirus affecting domestic and small wild cats . As with all retroviruses, FeLV is an enveloped RNA virus , which relies for its replication on a DNA intermediate. Using its reverse transcriptase activity, the RNA genome is reverse-transcribed into a DNA, which is usually integrated into the host's cell genome. FeLV incorporated into the host's ...
What's New in Feline Leukemia Virus Infection
PATHOGENESIS OF FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION FeLV is a gammaretrovirus of domestic cats that belongs to the oncornavirus subfam-ily of retroviruses. Exogenous (foreign, "pathogenic") and endogenous (inherited, "nonpathogenic") retroviruses occur in cats.1 The endogenous retroviruses (enFeLVs) are integrated into the genome of all domestic cats , in every cell line.1 EnFeLVs might ...
Structure of feline leukemia virus . Gammaretroviruses contain two identical strands of RNA and associated enzymes, which include reverse transcriptase, integrase, and protease, packaged into a core composed of the capsid protein (p27) with a surrounding matrix, all enclosed by a phospholipid membrane envelope derived from the host cell .
Feline leukaemia virus infection
Feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) is a well-known pathogen occurring worldwide in domestic and small wild cats . 1, 2 It is a gammaretrovirus that was first described as 'a virus -like particle associated with leukaemia (lymphosarcoma)' over 50 years ago by Jarrett et al. 3 FeLV infection can cause immunodeficiency, cytopenias and neoplasia in ...
To elucidate in vivo cell tropism and infection kinetics of an immunodeficiency-inducing isolate of feline leukaemia virus (FeLV-FAIDS), we quantified the two major genotypes comprising FeLV-FAIDS [the replication-competent common form (clone 61E) and the replication-defective variant (clone 61C)] in lymphocyte and leukocyte populations from infected cats . Micromagnetic separation of cell ...
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