ORF virus causes tumor-promoting inflammation in sheep and goats.

Autor:	Pintus D; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Cancedda MG; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Puggioni G; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Scivoli R; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Rocchigiani AM; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Maestrale C; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Coradduzza E; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Bechere R; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Silva-Flannery L; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA., Bullock HA; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA., Macciocu S; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Montesu MA; Università degli studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy., Marras V; Università degli studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy., Dore S; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy., Ritter JM; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA., Ligios C; Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Veterinary pathology [Vet Pathol] 2024 Sep; Vol. 61 (5), pp. 803-814. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 13.
DOI:	10.1177/03009858241241794
Abstrakt:	ORF virus (ORFV) causes contagious ecthyma ("ORF"), a disease of sheep and goats characterized by lesions ranging from vesicles and pustules to atypical papilloma-like and angiomatous lesions in the skin and mucosae. The authors investigated the molecular factors leading to the ORF-associated atypical tumor-like changes. Fifteen lambs, 15 kids, and an adult ram clinically affected by natural ORFV infection were enrolled in the study and examined by several methods. ORFV was detected by viral culture or real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in the lesioned tissues and in the blood of the clinically affected sheep and goats. Surprisingly, ORFV was also detected in the blood of healthy goats from an affected herd. Microscopically, they found a pseudo-papillomatous proliferation of the epithelium, while the dermis and lamina propria were expanded by a proliferating neovascular component that highly expressed the viral vascular endothelial growth factor (vVEGF) and its host receptor vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2). Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, and in situ hybridization for mRNA showed that epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) was expressed in the fibrovascular component, in the infiltrating CD163+ macrophages, and in the basal stratum of the epidermis. Confocal immunofluorescence microscopy demonstrated that CD163+ macrophages were associated with VEGF and VEGFR2. Finally, they found by quantitative RT-PCR the overexpression of the interleukin-6 and VEGFR2 genes in the lesioned tissues. These findings suggest that ORFV activates an inflammatory reaction characterized by CD163+ macrophages expressing EGFR and VEGFR2, which might play an oncogenic role through synergistic action with vVEGF signaling. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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