摘要：The susceptibility of the chicken mesenchymal stem cells to infectious bronchitis virus was characterized after twenty consecutive passages in chicken mesenchymal stemm cells. Virus replication was monitored by cytopathic observation, indirect immunoperoxidase, and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. At 72 h post-infection (p.i.) in third passage, the cytopathic effect was characterized by rounding up of cell, monolayer detachment, intracytoplasmic brownish colouration was readily observed by from 24h p.i in third passage, and at all times the extracted viral RNA from IBV-infected monolayers was demonstrated by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Tissue culture effective dose50 was used to measure virus titration performed on chicken mesenchymal stem cells and the titres in twenty passages was 108.6 TID50/ml. The results obtained in this study suggested that the chicken mesenhymal stem cells can be used for adaptation IBV and may be considered a step forward for the use of these cells in the future for IBV vaccine production.
