Transmission of ground squirrel hepatitis virus to homologous and heterologous hosts

Daniel Trueba, Michael Phelan, John Nelson, Fred Beck, Brian S. Pecha, R. James Brown, Harold E. Varmus, Don Ganem – 1 May 1985 – The infectivity and host range of ground squirrel hepatitis virus (GSHV) have been further examined by animal inoculation experiments. Although carrier squirrel sera usually harbor 109 to 1010 virions per ml as determined by physical measurements, titration of one such serum revealed that squirrel infectivity was lost following dilution of the sample over 106‐fold. Infectivity is markedly reduced by NP40 pretreatment of infected serum.

Sinusoidal caliber in alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver disease: Diagnostic and pathogenic implications

Eva I. Vidins, Robert S. Britton, Alan Medline, Laurence M. Blendis, Yedy Israel, Hector Orrego – 1 May 1985 – Portal hypertension in alcoholic liver disease has been attributed to an increased resistance to blood flow either of sinusoidal or of postsinusoidal origin. The former should be accompanied by sinusoidal compression while the latter is expected to result in an increased or a normal sinusoidal diameter.

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