Leukemia
New leukemia study findings have been reported by scientists at Medical College
Published in Virus Weekly, March 4th, 2008
"To investigate cross-species infectivity and pathogenesis of Friend murine leukemia virus (MuLV) in hamsters, we infected newborn Syrian hamsters with ecotropic Friend MuLV that was passaged in BALB/c mice for approximately 30 years. During acute infection, 39.5% of newborn Syrian hamsters developed severe growth interruption and weight loss, spleen atrophy, severe lymphocyte depletion, and massive viral antigen loads in the spleen," investigators in Harbin, People's Republic of China report.
"The lymph nodes and thymuses were observed in all diseased hamsters. Ecotropic Friend MuLV was rescued from the sera and spleen and heart extracts of the diseased hamsters, and...
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Source: Virus Weekly (2008-03-04)
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