Biomedical subjects

H Libíková

Publications and source records attributed to H Libíková.

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PubMed1975

Viral infection and interferon in cell cultures aged in vitro.

Cells from leucosis-free chick embryos (skin and muscles), grown in vitro 1 and 7 days with no medium change, are used as a model for young dividing and stationary in vitro aged cells, respectively. Aged cultures are advantageous for IF induction by cytopathic and noncytopathic viruses. Decreased virus production in them is ascribed to a back effect of the early formed IF onto the inducing virus. A factor which stimulates viral IF interferon induction also in young cultures, is released from aged cells into the medium. This factor could belong -- according to its properties and action -- into the class of chalones.

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PubMed1975

Search for herpetic antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid in senile dementia and mental retardation.

Complement-requiring neutralizing antibodies to herpes simplex type 1 virus (HSV 1) in titres from 2 to greater than 16 were detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 47% senile patients with various forms of dementia, but in none of mentally retarded adolescents and adults suffering from various neurologidal diseases. Also the incidence of HSV 1 serum antibodies in elevated titres (larger than or equal to 512) was increased in senile demented patients (61%) as compared with persons in normal senium (31%), normal adults (15%), mentally retarded adolescents (17%) and prisoned felons with low IQ (45-47%).

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PubMed1975

Experimental mixed infection with two tick-borne viruses and interferon-mediated interference.

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TEV), a Flavivirus, and Lipovník virus (LV), a member of the Kemerovo group and complex and possible member of the Rioviridae, were used to infect chick embryo cell (CEC) cultures. LV reproduction was inhibited by preinfection with TEV, mainly in aged cultures. In young CEC cultures, TEV production was stimulated slightly and interferon was sometimes depressed by this superinfection; on the contrary, in aged cultures the superinfecting LV stimulated interferon also when infective LV was not produced because of interference. Double staining by the fluorescent antibody (FA) technique localized both viral antigens often in the same cells. Interference between TEV and LV (and vice versa) was observed in cerebrally infected adult mice. The pathogenicity of LV, when injected first, was increased by TEV superinfection. Examination by the FA technique confirmed interference between TEV and LV also in suckling mouse brains and demonstrated both viral antigens in the same brains when TEV and LV were injected simultaneously.

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PubMed1975

Comparison of the sensitivity to ultraviolet irradiation of reovirus 3 and some viruses of the Kemerovo group.

The kinetics of UV inactivation of the tick-borne Kemerovo (strain R-10) and Lipovnik (strain Lip-91) viruses which have been preliminarily classified as possible members of the Reovirus group was examined. Reovirus 3 and Sindbis virus served as reference double-stranded RNA and single-stranded RNA viruses, respectively. The parameters of UV inresembled those of Reovirus 3. This is consistent with their tentative classification as reovirus-like viruses.

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PubMed1974