cellular
• mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) from mice infected with VSV show up to a 100-fold increase in VSV release into the supernatant and higher accumulation of vesicular stomatitis virus nucleocapsid protein (VSV-N) RNA indicating increased virus growth
• however, infectious particles and viral RNA accumulation of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) and Semliki forest virus (SFV) are comparable to wild-type MEFs
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hematopoietic system
• bone marrow cells infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) show a 10- to 30-fold increase in infectious virus particles
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immune system
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• mice intranasally infected with VSV using an intranasal infection regime causing encephalitis show no differences in survival rates compared to wild-type infected mice and viral RNA load in the cerebellum is not different
• mice do not show spontaneous upregulation of mRNA encoding for classing antiviral proteins, inflammatory cytokines, or U1 snRNA in heart, liver, lung, or spleen, indicating no general perturbation of the cellular innate immune response
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