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Histopathology analysis of CHIKV challenged mice.
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posted on 2013-02-20, 21:31 authored by Karthik Mallilankaraman, Devon J. Shedlock, Huihui Bao, Omkar U. Kawalekar, Paolo Fagone, Aarthi A. Ramanathan, Bernadette Ferraro, Jennifer Stabenow, Paluru Vijayachari, Senthil G. Sundaram, Nagarajan Muruganandam, Gopalsamy Sarangan, Padma Srikanth, Amir S. Khan, Mark G. Lewis, J. Joseph Kim, Niranjan Y. Sardesai, Karuppiah Muthumani, David B. Weiner(A) H&E stained sections of Brain. pMCE321 vaccinated mice showed no severe pathological changes and showed only minimal microglial formation. Capsid immunized mice group showed severe hemorrhage and microglia formation similar to the naïve group. (B) H&E stained sections of Heart, Liver, Kidney and Lungs. Envelope vaccinated group showed minimal or no pathological changes in the organs. The naïve group showed severe pathological changes indicative of virus infection and the Capsid DNA immunized group showed similar pathological changes to the naïve group. Representative data are shown from 2 mice/group.
