Sentences with phrase «heart cells infected»
When they killed the animals a week later, they found that the virus had broken apart dystrophin in their hearts and that the membranes of heart cells infected with Coxsackie B virus were more permeable to blue dye than uninfected cells.
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Coxsackie B virus (red) infects cells positive for the heart stem cell marker Sca - 1 (green).
To test whether the childhood infection and stem cell depletion had any effect on the adult heart, the researchers exposed infected mice to two different types of cardiac stress.
After cultured rat heart cells were infected with the Coxsackie B virus, the amount of normal dystrophin declined within 3 days.
Most infected puppies required extraordinary and expensive medical care to survive, and very young puppies rarely did, as the virus infected the rapidly dividing cells of the heart.
Parvovirus also attacks the white blood cells, and when young animals are infected, the virus can damage the heart muscle and cause lifelong cardiac problem (pets.webmd.com)
Spread through contact with infected feces, the long - lived virus attacked rapidly reproducing cells such as those lining the gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, lymph nodes, and heart.