Susceptibility of Bovine Naked 2- and 4-Cell Embryos and Hatched Blastocysts Produced In Vitro to Infection with Noncytopathogenic Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus.

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  • Tbuboi Takamitsu
    Laboratories of Microbiological Diagnosis, Department of Systematic Diagnosis, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0856, Japan
  • Imada Tadao
    Viral Pathogenesis, Department of Virology, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0856, Japan

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  • Susceptibility of bovine naked 2- and 4-cell elmbryos and hatched blastocysts produced in vitro infection with noncytopathogenic bovine viral diarrhea virus

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To investigate the susceptibility of early bovine embryos to noncytopathogenic bovine viral diarrhea virus (NCP BVDV), 2- and 4-cell embryos produced in vitro from which zona pellucida had been removed by pronase treatment, and hatched blastocysts were exposed to 106 TCID50/ml of NCP BVDV No. 12 strain. The virus was detected in all embryo samples immediately prior to cultivation but not in the medium. After 24-hr culture, the virus was isolated from four media and two embryo samples in four experiments in the blastocyst group, and the viral antigen was demonstrated in the cytoplasm of the embryo cells by the immunofluorescent technique. By contrast, no virus was recovered from, or viral antigen detected in samples from the 2- and 4-cell embryo group in any of the experiments, even though they were exposed to the virus after removal of the zona pellucida. These findings suggest that 2- and 4-cell embryos are unlikely to be susceptible to NCP BVDV, but that blastocysts are capable of being infected with the virus.

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