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Veterinary Pathology, Vol 34, Issue 2 127-137, Copyright © 1997 by American College of Veterinary Pathologists

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Tissue tropism of the HPRS-103 strain of J subgroup avian leukosis virus and of a derivative acutely transforming virus

S. S. Arshad, K. Howes, G. S. Barron, L. M. Smith, P. H. Russell and L. N. Payne
Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berkshire, UK.

The tissue tropism was studied for the HPRS-103 strain of avian leukosis virus, which belongs to a new envelope subgroup, designated J. Studies were conducted in blood monocyte and bone marrow cell cultures and in chickens from six lines that had been shown previously to differ in susceptibility to induction by this virus of myeloid leukosis and other tumors. Using an immunohistochemical technique to detect expression of viral group-specific antigen (Gag) in various tissues, we detected no major differences among the six lines of chickens at 3 and 7 weeks of age following infection as embryos. Thus, Gag expression did not correlate with differences in tumor susceptibility. Of the tissues examined, greatest Gag expression was observed in cells specific to the adrenal gland, heart, kidney, proventriculus and especially in smooth muscle cells and connective tissue. After infection of 1-day-old chicks, greater tissue expression was observed in line 21 chicks, which mostly developed a tolerant viremic infection, than in Brown Leghorn chicks, which developed virus-neutralizing antibodies. An acutely transforming virus, strain 966, derived from HPRS-103-induced myeloid leukosis, showed a tropism similar to HPRS-103. The HPRS-103 strain showed a lower propensity to replicate in the medullary region of the lymphoid follicles of the bursa of Fabricius than did the RAV-1 strain of subgroup A avian leukosis virus. This low bursal tropism may be a factor in why HPRS-103 does not induce lymphoid leukosis. The HPRS-103 and 966 virus replicated in blood monocyte cultures from chickens from the six lines, indicating a tropism for the myelomonocytic cell lineage. In comparison, as previously reported, RAV-1 did not replicate well in the monocyte cultures, whereas RAV-2, a subgroup B avian leukosis virus, did replicate. The tropism of HPRS-103 for monocytes may relate to its ability to cause myeloid leukosis. Monocyte and bone marrow cell cultures from the six lines ranked similarly in differences in susceptibility to transformation by 966 virus and showed evidence that their relative susceptibilities correlated with susceptibility of chickens from these lines to induction of myeloid leukosis by HPRS-103, suggesting common tissue-specific viral and host factors involved in oncogenesis by these two viruses.


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