Show 10A r Ogden Saturday May 17 1986 'Health cieimSisfis WASHINGTON (AP) — California researchers for the first time have grown the virus in animal cells in a development that may unlock the secret by which some cells slow the germ's reproduction Until now the virus — which can dc- stroy the body's protective immune system — has been grown only in cells of the human immune system the ones it attacks and kills after causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome research ers said grow AIDS virus in animal cells best in the human cells but not as well human immune cells This slow reproduction means that cither the animal cells lack something that more susceptible human cells have or that human cells lack an inhibitor to the virus that the others possess Levy said "If we can learn how mouse cells limit the AIDS virus growth we may be able to find a way to suppress the virus growth in humans" he said r Levy and Dr Cecilia as into a tiny bit of genetic material from bacteria called a plasmid By chemically treating the cells the researchers were able to make the membranes receptive to the plasmids Within five to 14 days they were able to isolate intact and infectious virus from all of the cell cultures said the report The amount of virus recovered differed greatly with each type of cell said in a telephone interview well as Drs Dino Dina and Paul Luciw of Chiron said they used fibroblast cells from humans and different animals for the experiments These are the cells that make up the body's fibrous tissues such as tendons The major barrier to the virus getting into the fibroblasts so that it could reproduce is the membrane surrounding the cells The researchers said they overcame this block by putting a molecular clone of the virus produced by Chiron as in In a report published today in the journal Science scientists at the UniverSan Francisco and the sity of California Chiron Corp of Emeryville Calif say they now can grow the virus in cells from monkeys minks mice and humans Dr Jay A Levy principal investigator of the study at the university said viral reproduction was poor in these cells especially those from mice The virus grew Radiation victims see new hope ai' Ac manv NPW VABIf as 40 of every 100 people needing ' j bone marrow transplants can re- cfcive them successfully under Hf 1 rrtrtH iti Arte iv mrt"i"ort r v iuvui nail vuiiuuiunj pcrts say but not all radiation victims can be helped by the transplants Sevrntv nrrrrnt cf Irancnlnnt will be successful if matched do- nors can be found said Dr Philip McGlavc director of the adult service of the Uni- Vfriilv nf MintiMnl Rut Hnnnrc ' 'whose marrow matches that of the intended recipient can be ex- pected to be found only about half the time McGlavc said Thursday CA team of four American doctors and one Israeli have per formed bone marrow transplants on 19 of the 35 most seriously ill radiation victims in the Soviet Union said the team's coordinator Dr Robert P Gale of the University of California in Los ' Angeles Gale and the others were invit- ea to the soviet union in the vake ot the disaster at the Cher-- nobyl nuclear power plant The Soviet radiation victims who did not get transplants were to either too little or too much radiation for transplants to blood is matched by blood type "Nobody has reported good reexcept tissue typing is more sults" said McGlave complex and thus matches are According to reports Gale harder to find said McGlave A sought to do several transplants pair of siblings have a in the Soviet Union using liver chance of having matching bone cells from human fetuses when a marrow types Brothers and sismatched donor could not be ters of victims are the most com- found mon donors of bone marrow he Fetal liver cells perform the said function of bone marrow in early In about 10 percent of cases in fetal development — that is they which there is no matched sib- manufacture red and white blood ling an unrelated donor can be cells The advantage of the fetal found whose tissue type matches cells is that they have not develthe victim he said oped a clear tissue type and thus transplants differ precise matching of donor cells from other organ transplants be- and recipients is not necessary cause marrow manufactures imsaid McGlave mune cells Not only can the "It's a plausible approach but body reject transplanted marrow certainly not one in which there's if a matched donor is not found much precedent" McGlave said but the marrow "can in fact reject "I would put that in the category its recipient" said Dr Paul Rus- of the fairly dramatic sell chief of tansplantation at things you might be Massachusetts General Hospital doing" in Boston That condition is Bone marrow is normally obcalled disease tained from the cavity inside the Researchers have developed a bones of the hip Donors are usuof for variety processtechniques ally put to sleep and a needle is ing bone marrow with the aim of used to extract a volume of martransplanting it into donors with row equivalent in size to a unit of whom it is not closely matched donor blood exposed be helpful "You have to know what other kinds of radiation damage were done" in addition to damage to the bone marrow said Dr Joel Rappepoit director of bone marrow transplantation at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston "You may have a situation where having new bone marrow doesn't do anything for you because your gut is dead" he said "Secondly you have to know the chances of the bone marrow coming back on its own" Victims whose bone marrow is damaged will die of infections or bleeding if not given transplants as their immune blood cells and clotting cells are depleted The key to success in bone marrow transplantation is finding a matched donor to supply the marrow American transplantation experts said Bone marrow is matched by tissue type in much the same way gonorrhea strain spreads with impressive speed Drug-resista- nt ATLANTA (AP) — Tetracy-- " is gonorrhea spreading throughout the United 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