In two trials in May the latest transgenic myxoma virus sterilized 8 out of 11 female domestic rabbits, while a ninth carried only a single embryo _ a success rate of over 70 percent.
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This has been determined to be a result of the myxoma virus's inability to suppress other species'interferon expression, and hence resulting in the interferon in turn suppressing the myxoma virus.
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This has been determined to be a result of the myxoma virus's inability to suppress other species'interferon expression, and hence resulting in the interferon in turn suppressing the myxoma virus.
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Many species of rabbit cells in culture ( without the presence of any antiviral defenses that would normally be in a host ) can be infected by the myxoma virus, causing infection and cell death.
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However, inoculation of the myxoma virus in many species of rabbit shows that only one species of rabbit is affected, the rest being completely unharmed by the virus ( lack of even viral shedding ).
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TAN syndrome is characterized by multiple superficial angiomyxoma and neurothekeoma confined only to the skin ( tegument ) . " TAN syndrome " may be used to describe myxomas confined to the skin without visceral involvement.
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A "'cutaneous myxoma "', a . k . a . superficial angiomyxoma, consists of a multilobulated myxoid mass containing stellate or spindled fibroblasts with pools of mucin forming cleft-like spaces.
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Prior to the release of the virus as a biological control for the rabbits, Fenner, Frank Macfarlane Burnet, and Ian Clunies Ross famously injected themselves with myxoma virus, to prove it was not dangerous for humans.
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The myxoma virus is also capable of producing tumor necrosis factor receptor mimics to reduce the host's natural response to TNF . The M-T2 protein is a soluble receptor the mimics the TNF receptors within rabbits.
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About 10 % of myxomas are passed down through families ( inherited ), as in Carney syndrome, where several other abnormalities are observed, such as skin myxomas, pigmentation, endocrine hyperactivity, schwannomas and epithelioid blue nevi.
