Ultrastructure of Junín Virus in Mouse Whole Brain and Mouse Brain Tissue Cultures
AUTOR(ES)
Lascano, Eduardo F.
RESUMO
Comparative ultrastructural studies were performed on the development of Junín virus in mouse brain and in cerebellum explants and brain monolayers of the same animal. In mouse brain, neurons and astrocytes released virus particles by a budding mechanism identical to that previously described for this virus. In the neurons, the viral multiplication took place in the perikarion as well as in the cytoplasmic processes, including areas near synapses. Viral particles were observed emerging from pericapillary neurons and astrocytes. In the explants, the budding also occurred in neurons and astrocytes. In the monolayers, however, the virus originated in astrocytes and cells of fibroblastic appearance, which were the two cell types that developed in this substrate. These results indicate that the characteristics of the development of Junín virus in mouse brain are faithfully reproduced in cerebellum explants from the same animal, thus allowing some extrapolation of data from one system to the other. The explant proved to be a better model than the monolayer, not only because it reproduced the structural complexity of nervous tissue better, but also because it contains neurons and astrocytes, i.e., the two cell types that release the virus in the in vivo system.
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