Issue · 2015
Vol. 2, Iss. 2 Pages 15-27
4 articles · pp. 15-27 · All issues →
CommentarySkeletal Muscle in Influenza Virus Infection- a Key Player or a Bystander?
Suresh V Kuchipudi, Kin-Chow Chang
Skeletal muscle constitutes the largest soft tissue mass in the body whose principal roles are postural maintenance and locomotion. Comprising heterogeneous multi-nucleated fibres, skeletal muscle is one of more astounding and unusual tissues in the body in it…
11 Mar 2015- Commentary
Have we found an Optimal Insertion Site in a Newcastle Disease Virus Vector to Express a Foreign Gene for Vaccine and Gene Therapy Purposes?
Qingzhong Yu
Different approaches have been used to investigate the most suitable insertion site for optimal expression of a foreign gene without compromising the replication of the Newcastle disease virus. Recently, inserting a green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene upstrea…
11 Mar 2015 - Preview
NDV Induced Immune-Pathology in Chickens
Hu Zenglei, Xiufan Liu
Virulence and pathogenicity of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is one of the major determinants for the clinicopathological manifestations in infected hosts. Recent studies showed that the host innate immune responses to infection play important role in the path…
17 Mar 2015 - Preview
Louping Ill Virus (LIV) in the Far East: A Perspective
Galina N. Leonova, Ilya G. Kondratov, Sergei I. Belikov
This study focused on finding, culturing, and identifying the biological and genetic characteristics of three Louping ill virus (LIV) strains in the south of the Russian Far East isolated from Ixodes persulcatus ticks and one strain was isolated from the blood…
17 Mar 2015