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W Drommer

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PubMed1975

[Pathogenesis of aleutian mink disease. VII. Chronic hepatitis with bile duct proliferation].

Aleutian disease is a chronic persistent viral infection of mink characterized by hypergammaglobulinema, generalized plasmacytosis, sclerosing glomerulonephritis, polyarteritis, and plasma cell hepatitis with bile duct proliferation. The development of hepatic lesions was studied both light- and electron-microscopically in mink experimentally infected with Aleutian disease virus. Fifteen normal and 99 mink experimentally infected with Aleutian disease virus were used. Experimental mink were killed in intervals from 3 weeks to 23 months after infection, and liver sections were processed for both light- and electron-microscopic studies. Experimentally infected mink developed portal and intralobular lymphocytic and plasmacytic infiltrates in the liver 3 weeks after infection. Four to five weeks after infection there was evidence of early bile duct proliferation that began as an outgrowth of the portal bile ducts. Three to five months after infection a marked bile duct proliferation was present in some of the portal triads and adjacent liver lobules; but there was no tendency of these lesions to progress into biliary cirrhosis. Ultrastructural characteristics of proliferating bile duct cells were marked deformation, formation of multiple cell layers, reduction in the number of microvilli and desmosomes, and infiltration of the epithelial cells by lymphoid cells and plasmacytes. The hepatic lesions either develop by direct virus stimulation or by the deposition of virus-antibody complexes.

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PubMed1975

[Experimental erysipelas in different species as a model for systemic connective tissue disease. I. Systemic vascular processes during organ manifestation (author's transl)].

INTRODUCTION: The similarities between erysipelas in animals and rheumatic diseases in man have been discussed since the work of Nieberle (1931). The present work sets out to investigate the course of organ manifestations in pigs, rats, and mice using germ-free or specific pathogen-free experimental animals. Particular consideration will be given to the initial systemic vascular processes as well as to the significance of the erysipelas antigen. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In several experiments, a total of 166 pigs--partly gnotobiotic or specific pathogen-free animals--37 specific pathogen free Wistar rats and 57 albino mice were orally and/or parenterally infected with standardized erysipelas strains of serotype B. Clinical examination post infection were carried out with the EKG and by x-raying the joints of the extremities. All large parenchymatous organs, as well as heart valves, aorta and synovia were examined histologically in paraffin sections. In mice and rats, joints of the extremities were embedded in toto in metracrylate. Besides various histological staining methods, histochemical reactions were used to demonstrate mucopolysaccharides and fibrin. The myocardium, central nervous system and synovia of several joints were examined with the electron microscope. In the pig, immunohistological methods demonstrating the presence of fibrin, complement and IgG, as described by Seidler et al. (1971) and Trautwein et al. (1972), were used. RESULTS: The most important changes in joints, heart valves heart musculature and blood vessels occur during the early bacteriemic phase. A distinct sticking effect develops in the mouse 3.5 hours p.i., in the rat 24 hours p.i., and in the pig 36 hours p.i. Simultaneously, hyaline thrombi occur in capillaries and venules; these are seen as parallel, loosely-packed fibrin fibers in the electron microscope. With the aid of immunofluorescence fibrin, IgG and complement C3 can also be demonstrated here. Exudates rich in fibrin develop parallel to the microthrombosis. In pigs and rats vascular and myocardial necroses develop to 3 days p.i. The mice do not survive the 3rd p.i. 39% of the pigs showed edema and mesenchymal activation of varying intensity in the heart valves between the 3rd and 8th day p.i. Besides the insudation of the valves, endocardial thromboses developed in 80% of the mice. Endocarditis, aand in addition large aortic thromboses were recognized in more than 50% of the rats. As early as the 4th day p.i., coagulopathy, angionecrosis and exudation led to acute arthritic symptoms..

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PubMed1975

[Experimental erysipelas in different species as a model for systemic connective tissue disease. II. The chronic phase with special reference to polyarthritis (author's transl)].

INTRODUCTION: In part I of this paper (Schulz et al., 1975) it was shown that in the initial phase of experimental erysipelas a transition from the vascular processes to a systemic connective tissue reaction can be demonstrated in different species. It is the purpose of this paper to describe the chronic phase of the disease with special emphasis on polyarthritis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 12 spontaneously diseased and 22 experimentally infected pigs were used in experiments to study the pathogenesis of the disease. In addition, 74 Wistar rats and 148 Sprague-Dawley rats were used in the experiments. All experimental animals were specific-pathogen-free and were parenterally infected with the standardized E. insidiosa serotype B strain T 28. The observation period for the pigs was up to 2 years, for the rats up to 11 months. The methods used for pathohistological and electron microscopical studies are described in part I. Immunihistological studies were carried out on synovial tissue with peroxidase-conjugates of goat-anti-pig-IgG, goat-anti-pig-IgM, pig-collagen, E. insidiosa-homogenate and heat-aggregated-pig-IgG. Furthermore, goat-anti-pig-IgG and rabbit-anti-pig-C3 conjugated with FITC were used. Passive hemagglutination tests and Latex agglutination test (Singer and Plotz) were performed to demonstrate rheumatoid factors and collagen antibodies. RESULTS: Polyarthritis occurred in pigs between the 4th and 10th day p.i. and between the 4th and 8th day p.i. in nearly 100% of the infected rats. Fibrinous exudation, proliferation and destruction with pannus formation are marked in most of the joints examined during the first three months. Fibrosis begins 30 days p.i. in the rats' joints and is most severe in both species between the 5th and 8th month. 3 types of lining cells may be differentiated electron microscopically: A (M) cells, B (F) cells and an intermediate form which is found in both species most frequently. Swelling of the endothelial cells together with constriction of the lumen and thickening of the basal membrane occurs in the capillaries. DISCUSSION: A comparison of chronic erysipelas polyarthritis in pigs and rats with rheumatoid arthritis of men reveals many morphological and immunological similarities between the two diseases. Systemic connective tissue activation manifests itself in organs predilected for rheumatic changes, such as heart valves, endocardium and joints. The possible prepetuation of the processes by specific or nonspecific immunomechanisms or by deposits of fibrin is discussed. In addition, experimental erysipelas is reproducible in nearly 100% of the animals given one single subcutaneous application of one defined bacteria strain. Therefore too, erysipelas is suited as an animal model for human rheumatic diseases.

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