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RHT-16 contains integrated HTLV-1 leukemia virus-I (HTLV-1) provirus and sheds intact virus particles.
The RH/K30 (ATCC CRL-2560) and RH/K34 (ATCC CRL-2561) cell lines differ in their potential to cause disease in rabbits.
Injection of the RH/K34 cell line causes human adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma-like (ATLL) disease that is fatal within 10 days.
However, all rabbits injected with the same or higher doses of RH/K30 survived with a low-grade leukemia that showed evidence of acute rejection.
The cell line may be used as an infectious human disease model; it can be used to infect rabbits with HTLV-1. |
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