New Look at RSV Infection: Tissue Clearing and 3D Imaging of the Entire Mouse Lung at Cellular Resolution.
Viruses
; 13(2)2021 01 28.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33525646
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the major cause of severe acute respiratory tract illness in young children worldwide and a main pathogen for the elderly and immune-compromised people. In the absence of vaccines or effective treatments, a better characterization of the pathogenesis of RSV infection is required. To date, the pathophysiology of the disease and its diagnosis has mostly relied on chest X-ray and genome detection in nasopharyngeal swabs. The development of new imaging approaches is instrumental to further the description of RSV spread, virus-host interactions and related acute respiratory disease, at the level of the entire lung.METHODS:
By combining tissue clearing, 3D microscopy and image processing, we developed a novel visualization tool of RSV infection in undissected mouse lungs.RESULTS:
Whole tissue analysis allowed the identification of infected cell subtypes, based on both morphological traits and position within the cellular network. Furthermore, 3D imaging was also valuable to detect the cytoplasmic viral factories, also called inclusion bodies, a hallmark of RSV infection.CONCLUSIONS:
Whole lung clearing and 3D deep imaging represents an unprecedented visualization method of infected lungs to allow insight into RSV pathophysiology and improve the 2D histology analyses.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human
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Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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Lung
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Viruses
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Francia