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ArticleNeuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology2014

Survival of rabid rabbits after intrathecal immunization.

Sawang Kesdangsakonwut, Yuji Sunden, Keisuke Aoshima, Yoshimi Iwaki, Masahiro Okumura, Hirofumi Sawa, Takashi Umemura

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Article in Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Novel Approaches to the Prevention and Treatment of Rabies.International journal of virology studies & research · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sawang KesdangsakonwutLaboratory of Comparative Pathology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Yuji Sunden
Keisuke Aoshima
Yoshimi Iwaki
Masahiro Okumura
Hirofumi Sawa
Takashi Umemura
Hokkaido University · JPHokkaido University of Science · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease for which no effective treatment measures are currently available. Rabies virus (RABV) has anti-apoptotic and anti-inflammatory properties that suppress nerve cell damage and inflammation in the CNS. These features imply that the elimination of RABV from the CNS by appropriate treatment could lead to complete recovery from rabies. Ten rabbits showing neuromuscular symptoms of rabies after subcutaneous (SC) immunization using commercially available vaccine containing inactivated whole RABV particles and subsequent fixed RABV (CVS strain) inoculation into hind limb muscles were allocated into three groups. Three rabbits received no further treatment (the SC group), three rabbits received three additional SC immunizations using the same vaccine, and four rabbits received three intrathecal (IT) immunizations, in which the vaccine was inoculated directly into the cerebrospinal fluid (the SC/IT group). An additional three naïve rabbits were inoculated intramuscularly with RABV and not vaccinated. The rabbits exhibited neuromuscular symptoms of rabies within 4-8 days post-inoculation (dpi) of RABV. All of the rabbits died within 8-12 dpi with the exception of one rabbit in the SC group and all four rabbits in SC/IT group, which recovered and started to respond to external stimuli at 11-18 dpi and survived until the end of the experimental period. RABV was eliminated from the CNS of the surviving rabbits. We report here a possible, although still incomplete, therapy for rabies using IT immunization. Our protocol may rescue the life of rabid patients and prompt the future development of novel therapies against rabies.

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AnimalsImmunizationInjections, SpinalRabbitsRabiesRabies VaccinesRabies virusSurvival RateRabies Vaccinesanimal experimentCNS pathologyintrathecal immunizationrabies virustreatment of rabies

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PMID24397792
PMCPMC4235457
OpenAlexW1670458579

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