Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T89 |
0-19 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2.7 Safety testing |
T90 |
21-83 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2.7.1 Assessment of pathogenicity in one-day-old SPF chickens |
T91 |
84-205 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The chickens were separately housed in isolators under consistent conditions, and food and water was provided ad libitum. |
T92 |
206-304 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A total of 120 one-day-old SPF chickens were randomly divided into four groups (n = 30 per group). |
T93 |
305-477 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The chickens in the experimental groups were intranasally inoculated with 200 μL allantoic fluid per chick containing 105EID50 of the rH120, rIBYZ, and rH120-S1/YZ strains. |
T94 |
478-563 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The control group (n = 30) was inoculated with 200 μL sterile PBS via the same route. |
T95 |
564-620 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The morbidity and mortality was followed-up for 14 days. |
T96 |
621-792 |
Sentence |
denotes |
All experimental groups were monitored daily for clinical signs related to IB infection for 14 days post-infection (dpi), including coughing, sneezing, and tracheal rales. |
T97 |
793-866 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Dead chickens were examined for gross tracheal, lung, and kidney lesions. |
T98 |
868-922 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2.7.2 Tissue tropism of early viral infection in vivo |
T99 |
923-1009 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A total of 100 1-day-old SPF chickens were assigned to four groups (n = 25 per group). |
T100 |
1010-1272 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The birds were inoculated with 200 μL allantoic fluid containing 105 EID50 of the rH120, rIBYZ, or rH120-S1/YZ strains, respectively via eye drop and the intranasal route and 200 μL PBS per chick was administered to the control group (n = 25) via the same route. |
T101 |
1273-1458 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The tracheas, lungs, kidneys, and bursa from the 5 inoculated birds per group were harvested at 1, 3, 5, and 7 dpi, weighed, and collected into 1 mL PBS per sample and frozen at −80 °C. |
T102 |
1459-1665 |
Sentence |
denotes |
After grinding the samples, the viral RNA was extracted using TRIzol, and the cDNA was obtained by reverse transcription using a PrimeScript RT Master Mix Perfect Real Time Kit (TaKaRa, Otsu, Shiga, Japan). |
T103 |
1666-1772 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The viral RNA copies from each of the different samples were detected by real-time PCR as described above. |
T104 |
1773-1889 |
Sentence |
denotes |
All assays were run in triplicate and the copy number for each virus was calculated according to the standard curve. |
T105 |
1891-1912 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2.7.3 Histopathology |
T106 |
1913-2165 |
Sentence |
denotes |
After inoculation with 105 EID50 dose of the rH120, rIBYZ, and rH120-S1/YZ strains, three infected chickens per group were randomly selected to be euthanized by bleeding, and the tissue pathology was examined in the different groups at 3, 5, 7, 10 dpi. |
T107 |
2166-2390 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The tracheas, lungs, kidneys, and bursas of three dead or other randomly-selected chickens from the experimental and control groups (inoculated with PBS) were collected at 5 or 7 dpi and further processed for histopathology. |
T108 |
2391-2512 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The samples were fixed in formalin, embedded in paraffin, cut into 5 μm sections, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. |
T109 |
2513-2589 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The slides were examined under light microscopy for the presence of lesions. |
T110 |
2591-2612 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2.7.4 Viral shedding |
T111 |
2613-2827 |
Sentence |
denotes |
To determine the level of viral shedding of the different recombinants, 10 birds per group were inoculated with 200 μL allantoic fluid containing 105 EID50 of the rH120, rIBYZ, or rH120-S1/YZ strains, respectively. |
T112 |
2828-2927 |
Sentence |
denotes |
200 μL PBS per chick was administered to the control group via eye drop and the intranasal route. . |
T113 |
2928-3049 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Oral and cloacal swabs were collected from each bird into 1 mL PBS at 7, 14, 18, 22, 26, and 30 dpi and stored at −80 °C. |
T114 |
3050-3311 |
Sentence |
denotes |
After freezing and thawing three times and centrifuging at 8,000 × g for 5 min at 4 °C, relative amount of virus present in 200 μL of supernatants of each sample was quantified by RNA extraction, reverse transcription, and real-time PCR as described previously. |