Expressão de fatores ligados à apoptose : herpesvirus bovino tipo 5

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Antello, Talita Fontes [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Microbiologia veterinaria; Virologia veterinaria; Apoptose; Virus do herpes em animais; Celulas - Cultura e meios de cultura; Veterinary microbiology
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/111014

Belonging to the family Herpesviridae, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, bovine Herpesvirus type 5 ( BoHV-5) is the causative agent of bovine non-suppurative meningoencephalitis, which predominantly affects young cattle. In Brazil, cases of encephalitis caused by BoHV-5 are the second leading cause of deaths in the herd. Viral infection usually results in a change in the programmed cell death via mitochondrial, stimulating or inhibiting apoptosis related genes, promoting viral replication and dissemination process. The present study aimed to analyze the expression of apoptosis related genes (Apaf-1, TNFα-R1, FasL and cytochrome c) in infected or uninfected MDBK cells with BoHV-5. We observed an increase ( p < 0.05 ) in expression of the genes studied for the infected group compared with controls, in different times post-infection experimental. In the case of the Herpesviridae family, modulation of apoptosis appears to be a key step in its pathogenesis, despite the association of anti and pro-apoptotic activities with BoHV-5 is completely unknown. This study demonstrates the ability of BoHV-5 in modulating either activating or inhibiting the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis