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Ovine aortic smooth muscle cells allow the replication of visna-maedi virus in vitro

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Visna-maedi virus induces in sheep an interstitial lung disease characterised by an accumulation of smooth muscle cells (SMC) or myomatosis. Infection by HIV-1 has been recently associated with disorders of the vessel-derived cells: primary pulmonary hypertension, coronary artery disease and smooth muscle tumors in humans. We hypothesized that, besides their regular targets (i.e. macrophages and lymphocytes), lentiviruses could infect smooth muscle cells. Smooth muscle cell cultures derived from ovine aorta were infected with visna-maedi virus strain K1514. The cultured cells were smooth muscle cells as demonstrated by their antigenic expression of α-actin and vimentin. The lentiviral infection of the smooth muscle cells was demonstrated by a typical cytopathic effect (syncytia), the expression of virus specific antigens, and the presence of genomic RNA detected by Northern blot analysis and RT PCR. The detection of a reverse transcriptase activity, the presence of viral RNA in supernatants of infected smooth muscle cells detected by RT PCR and their ability to infect ovine permissive fibroblasts demonstrated a productive infection. The ability of smooth muscle cells to be infected by lentiviruses may participate in the pathogenesis of the tissue damage associated with the lentiviruses such as myomatosis in sheep and vascular disease in humans.

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  1. Laboratorie d'Immunologie et de Biologie Pulmonaire, INSERM CJF 93-08 and Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Louis Pradel, France

    C. Leroux, G. Cordier, I. Mercier, J. Chastang, M. Lyon, T. Greenland & J. -F. Mornex

  2. Laboratorie de Recherches sur les Lentivirus chez les Petits Ruminants, INRA and Ecole Vétérinaire, Lyon

    C. Leroux, G. Cordier, I. Mercier, J. Chastang, M. Lyon, T. Greenland & J. -F. Mornex

  3. INSERM, U372, Marseille, France

    G. Quérat & R. Vigne

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Leroux, C., Cordier, G., Mercier, I. et al. Ovine aortic smooth muscle cells allow the replication of visna-maedi virus in vitro. Archives of Virology 140, 1–11 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01309719

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