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G Devauchelle

Publications and source records attributed to G Devauchelle.

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Cell fusion induced by invertebrate virus. Brief report.

Inoculation of invertebrate cells with Chilo Iridescent Virus (CIV) leads rapidly to massive formation of syncytia. This polykaryocytosis occurs at a high multiplicity of infection and does not require viral genome expression. Thus, cell fusion appears in non permissive conditions, and CIV suspensions rendered non infections by UV irradiation still retain the ability to produce rapid and extensive cell fusion. In the same way, some polykaryocytes could be detected in vertebrate cells (CV1 cell line). However, this process is more effective and faster in invertebrate cell systems.

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[Renal function and histologic studies in rats treated by floctafenin (author's transl)].

The nephrotoxic action of floctafenin has been studied in rats. When administered orally at 20 or 50 mg/kg/day for 20 or 50 days, this analgesic agent had no effect on the renal function, either in intact rats or in animal with reduced renal parenchyma. There is no histological change in the kidneys of the treated animals except some focal dilatations of the distal tubules. The tubular alterations were more important in treated and untreated rats with nephronic reduction. The whole body autoradiographic studies of rats treated with 14C floctafenin showed that liver and kidney accumulate radioactivity, and that the intake of radiolabeled compounds is twice higher in renal cortex than in medulla. This study suggests that the toxicity of floctafenin for the rat kidney is very low or none.

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[Electron microscopy studies of the early stages of mosquito cell infection in vitro by the chilo iridescent virus and the infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (author's transl)].

The early stage of the viral infection in vitro of mosquito cells were studied by electron microscopy using a microculture technique. We demonstrate in this paper that two viruses: iridescent (CIV) and herpetic (Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis) can enter by viropexis and be uncoated in several lines of mosquito cells.

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Enzyme activities associated with an invertebrate iridovirus: nucleotide phosphohydrolase activity associated with iridescent virus type 6 (CIV).

A nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolase activity is firmly associated with a purified invertebrate iridovirus, iridescent virus type 6. The enzyme activity hydrolyzes all the nucleoside triphosphates, but has a high preference for ATP. The products of the reaction are nucleoside diphosphates. Conditions for nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolase activity are described.

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