Effects of high hydrostatic pressure on the activity of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) was described. The infectivity of IBDV decreased with the increasing of pressure and pressurizing time and may be completely lost, indicated by the tests with chicken embryo fibrablast cell and young chicken as models. How-ever, pressure-inactivated IBDV still remained high immunogenicity and might induce high levels of protecting serum antibody. Fluorescence spectroscopy showed obvious differences between the structures of native and pressurized IBDV, similar with the dissociation-reassociation of oligomeric proteins under high pressure. The changes of pressurized IBDV were also directly observed with electron microscopy. These results suggest that pressure-inactivated IBDV may be used as a vaccine.
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EBioMedicine
December 2024
Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway; Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Section for Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway. Electronic address:
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States.
Discovery of cancer immunogenic chemotherapeutics represents an emerging, highly promising direction for cancer treatment that uses a chemical drug to achieve the efficacy of both chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Herein, we report a high-throughput screening platform and the subsequent discovery of a new class of cancer immunogenic chemotherapeutic leads. Our platform integrates informatics-based activity metabolomics for the rapid identification of microbial natural products with both novel structures and potent activities.
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The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, the NMPA and State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, China.
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December 2025
Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Hangzhou, China.
Objectives: Platelet transfusion refractoriness (PTR) is a frustrating clinical problem, and primary and persistent (P/P) PTR who experienced persistent PTR since the first transfusion was failed to be well recognized. This study aims to investigate the incidence and risk factors for P/P PTR.
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Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Moscow, Russia.
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