Abdul-Cader MS, Ehiremen G, Nagy E, Abdul-Careem. Low pathogenic avian influenza virus infection increases the staining intensity of KUL01+ cells including macrophages yet decrease of the staining intensity of KUL01+ cells using clodronate liposomes. Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2018 Apr
The effect of depletion of macrophages using clodronate liposomes as well as macrophage response following viral infections have been studied in various mouse-virus infection models, but they have not been extensively studied in chickens relevant to virus infections. When we infected day 6 chickens with H4N6 low pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV), we observed that H4N6 LPAIV infection increased the staining intensity of KUL01+ cells in trachea, lungs and duodenum of chickens at 3?days post-infection. Then, we used clodronate liposomes intra-abdominally in 5?day-old chickens and found significant reduction of staining intensity of KUL01+ cells in trachea and duodenum but not in lungs at 4?days post-treatment. When we infected the clodronate liposome and PBS liposome treated chickens with H4N6 LPAIV intra-nasally at day 6, we found no effect on H4N6 LPAIV genome loads in trachea, lungs and duodenum of chickens. This study indicates that although KUL01+ cell intensity are increased in respiratory and gastrointestinal tissues in chickens following H4N6 LPAIV infection, the decrease of KUL01+ cell intensity using clodronate liposomes did not change the H4N6 LPAIV genome loads in any of the examined tissues suggesting that KUL01+ cells may not be critical during H4N6 LPAIV infection in chicken.
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