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C E Schwerdt

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PubMed1975

Effect of ascorbic acid on rhinovirus replication in WI-38 cells.

Exposure of WI-38 cells to ascorbic acid plus glutathione mixtures in growth medium for 2 days prior to infection with rhinovirus serotype 20 and during virus replication suppressed multicyclic but not single-cycle growth of the virus. Multicyclic growth was suppressed over the range of multiplicity of infection (m.o.i.) of 4 times 10-minus 1 minus 4 times 10-minus 4 PFU/cell. There was some suggestion that, in the presence of ascorbic acid plus glutathione, interferon was produced at the highest m.o.i. tested but at barely detectable levels.

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PubMed1968

Shope fibroma virus growth curve in suspended tissue culture.

As a tumour-producing agent, Shope's rabbit fibroma virus (a member of the myxoma-fibroma subgroup of the poxviruses) is endowed with potentialities which differ from those of vaccinia virus. This work attemps to find, by the technique of the one-step growth curve in suspended cells, if the virus replication scheme is similar to other poxviruses. Fibroma virus seems to multiply rather slowly and to a limited level, but the pattern is characteristic of the poxviruses: eclipse phase, exponential multiplication, reduced release of virus in the medium are the main features.

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