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T Kurimura

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Field experiments on live attenuated Japanese encephalitis virus vaccine for swine.

The efficacy of a live attenuated Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) vaccine was examined in swine under conditions where natural infection could occur. The pigs immunized with the vaccine produced antibodies within one week after vaccination, and the antibody was retained until the end of the experiment, i.e. 36 days. However, the antibody titers in this group were lower than that in control group naturally infected with JEV. No virus was isolated from the five vaccinated pigs, but virus was isolated from all four untreated control pigs after natural infection, i.e., viremia was detected in all these animals. The duration of viremia in control pigs varied from one to four days. From these findings, it is concluded that immunization of swine with live attentuated JEV vaccine is useful in control of Japanese encephalitis (JE) in humans and some susceptible domestic animals.

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Inhibition of multinucleation of cells treated with cytochalasin-B by cyclic dibutyryl-AMP.

Multinucleation of SV40-transformed mouse cells was induced by Cytochalasin-B as a result of inhibition of cytokinesis. Multinucleated cells with nuclei, whose number is other than that that can be obtained by raising the power of 2, were frequently observed. By simultaneous addition of Cytochalasin-B and cylic dibutyryl-AMP to SV40-transformad mouse cellls, multinucleation was fairly inhibited and the predominance of the cells with 2 or 4 nuclei was characteristic. In case of normal mouse cells (BALB/3T3), addition of both Cytochalasin-B and cyclic dibutyryl-AMP lessened the number of nucleic in a cell compared with treatment of the cells with Cytochalasin-B alone. These results suggested that cyclic dibutyryl-AMP inhibited multinucleation of cells treated with Cytochalasin-B and that the chemical regulated the division of nuclei in a cell to divide simultaneously.

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