[Isolation of immunoglobulins from the egg yolk of hens immunized with intestinal viruses].

Antibodies from the yolk of eggs of chicken immunized with enteric viruses (simian rotavirus SA 11, poliomyelitis virus type 2, and Coxsackie B2) were obtained. The time course of the emergence and amplification of antibody in the yolk was followed for several months by neutralization tests and enzyme immunoassay. The long-term persistence of a high antibody level in the yolk, the simplicity of generation of large amounts of chromatographically pure preparations, as well as specificity of chicken immunoglobulins open ways for their employment in different test systems for the detection and identification of enteric viruses.

[Persistence of the Sindbis virus in cultures producing oncornavirus].

Continuous lines were obtained from primary cultures of BALB/C mouse embryo cells which were found by electron microscope and reverse transcriptase reaction to produce permanently oncoronavirus type C after exogenous infection with Rauscher leukemia virus (RLV). Sindbis virus (SV) was inoculated into virogenic cultures 398 days after infection with RLV. The system in characterized by rapid (3-21 days) disappearance of the infectious arbovirus from the medium and the cells, long-term (over 5 months) persistence on SV noninfectious antigen and signs of stimulation of oncornavirus activity.

[Persistence of Sindbis virus in cultures either non-producing or irregularly producing oncornavirus].

Persistence of Sindbis virus (SV) was studied for 9 months in two lines of mouse cell cultures (BALB/C) in one of which the genome of endogenous ecotropic oncornaviruses was repressed. The other lines was exogenously infected at the level of plimary culture with Rauscher leukemia virus (RLV) and SV and showed gradual inhibition of oncornavirus functions. The presence of oncornavirus type C was not the necessary condition for the development of persistent SV infection, however it influenced the character of persistence.

[Immunologic aspects of preparation of antiserum to the reverse transcriptase from avian myeloblastosis virus].

After immunization of rabbits the antiserum was prepared against purified reverse transcriptase (revertase) from avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). The antiserum demonstrated enzymeneutralizing antibody activity that was associated with ummunoglobulin G fraction but not with IgM. The high antigenicity of AMV revertase for rabbits was shown.

[DNA synthesis on the heterogeneous nuclear RNA template catalysed by DNA polymerase of avian myeloblastosis virus].

Template activity of nuclear pre-mRNA has been investigated in DNA-polymerase reaction. Active synthesis of DNA was demonstrated on pre-mRNA as a template in the absence of primer. A part of synthetic activity may be attributed to the traces of DNA present in the pre-mRNA preparation.

[Study of the reproduction conditions of the avian myeloblastosis virus for separation of the "reverse transcriptase" enzyme].

Sensitivity of eight chick lines to the avian myeloblastosis virus as the main source for RNA-dependent DNA-polymerase recovery was studied in the course of the "revertase" project. The virus (0.1 ml) was inoculated intracardially or intraperitoneally to one-day chicks, and then the virus titer was determined according to the ATP-activity.

[Biological, morphological and immunologic characteristics of cells transformed in vitro by bovine adenovirus type 3].

Studies of cell lines obtained as a result of in vitro transformation by bovine adenovirus type 3 at low multiplicities of infection: BHK-21/13-780 and BHK-21/13-782 (8 X 10(-5) TCD50/cell) and hamster embryo tissue HET-1 and HET-2 (2 X 10(-3) TCD50/cell) showed them to possess some oncologic characteristics typical of spontaneous neoplasia such as low degree of differentiation, high rate of cell growth, reduced adhesiveness, high tumorigenicity. In hamster embryo tissue cells (HET) transformed in vitro virus-specific transplantation antigen and S-antigen were found. In transformed cells of the initial BHK-21/13S culture possessing the capacity of transforming spontaneously and under the effect of oncogenic viruses no transplantation antigen coded for by bovine adenovirus type 3 were detected.

[Certain mechanisms of prophylactic effect of physical training in hypertensive disease].

Physical training produces definite changes in the state of the blood and renal kininine system. In skilled sportsmen the renal kinine system has a higher resistance to the effect of an intensive muscular work than that in physically untrained individuals. At rest the level of the kinine system enzymes in the blood of sportsmen is lower than in untrained persons.