Effect of variations in temperature of injected saline on early development of chick embryo.

Development of chick embryo is sensitive to the incubation temperature and increase or decrease in incubation temperature produces defect in development but the effect of drug solution injected at variable temperatures on developing chick embryo has not been established so far. Fresh embryonated eggs were incubated and saline was administered at various temperatures after 17 hr of incubation. Embryos were harvested to see the effect of temperature variations of injected saline on neural tube formation. Normal neural tube development was seen only at 37 degrees C, hot or cold saline produced maldevelopment of neural tube. Thus it is concluded that any solution or drug which needs to be injected should ideally be used at 37 degrees C, as temperature lower or higher than that may vitiate the results.

Animal transmission of enteric non-A, non-B hepatitis infection to Macaca mulatta by faeco-oral route.

M. mulatta monkeys were inoculated faeco-orally by enteric non-A, non-B virus to study the development of clinical, biochemical, histopathological and serological changes in the blood and liver. Pooled stool samples positive for putative non-A, non-B viral antigen by micro-ELISA and aggregated viral particles by immune electron microscopy, were administered in two M. mulatta monkeys. Biochemical, histopathological and serological changes were seen in the blood and liver and excretion of 27 nm virus like particles around 27 days of inoculation in the experimental monkey but not in the control animal.