| isolation and identification of symbiotic bacteria from the skin, mouth, and rectum of wild and captive tree shrews. | endosymbionts influence many aspects of their hosts' health conditions, including physiology, development, immunity, metabolism, etc. tree shrews (tupaia belangeri chinensis) have attracted increasing attention in modeling human diseases and therapeutic responses due to their close relationship with primates. to clarify the situation of symbiotic bacteria from their body surface, oral cavity, and anus, 12 wild and 12 the third generation of captive tree shrews were examined. based on morphologic ... | 2014 | 25465085 |
| short communication: antiviral activity of porcine ifn-λ3 against porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in vitro. | a new family of ifns called type iii ifn or ifn-λ has been described, and shown to induce antiviral activity against several viruses in the cell culture. in this study, the molecular cloning, expression, and antiporcine epidemic diarrhea virus (pedv) activity of porcine ifn-λ3 (poifn-λ3) were reported. the full-length poifn-λ3 cdna sequence encoded 196 amino acids with a 23 amino acid signal peptide. sequence alignments showed that poifn-λ3 had an amino acid sequence similarity to ovis aries (78 ... | 2016 | 27470155 |
| development of a tree shrew-specific interferon-gamma assay. | tree shrews (tupaia belangeri) are small squirrel-like mammals closely related to primates. due to their susceptibility to several human viruses, tree shrews have been proposed as potential animal models for the study of human viral infections. however, there are no standardized assays currently available for the detection of tree shrew-specific interferon (ifn)-γ, a major cytokine secreted during the antiviral immune response. herein, we developed a novel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elis ... | 2017 | 28679076 |