Banks of cell cultures for biotechnology.

Seeding and working cell banks were created and stored in cell culture collection. The banks were certified in accordance with international and national requirements. Cultures of 293, MT-4, L-68, FECH-16-1, FECH-16-2, 4647, MDCK, CHO TK(-), and CHO pE cells were recommended by Medical Immunobiological Preparation Committee for the use in the production of medical immunobiological preparations. The stock is sufficient enough for supplying standard cell material for the production of medical immunobiological preparations over few decades.

[4647-cell culture for preparation of recombinant bivaccine against smallpox and hepatitis B].

The seeding and working banks of a 4647-cell culture have been created. The 4647-cell culture in these banks has a high proliferative activity, as well as the morphology, typical of this line, and the karyotype and the enzymogram, which are characteristic for the cells of an African talapoin (Cercopithecus aethiops). The culture is not contaminated with bacteria, fungi, Mycoplasma, and viruses, including oncoviruses. The deposited 4647 cells have high viral productive properties for the accumulation of the recombinant virus strain b7,5S2-S vaccine and keep the stability of all biological properties during a long-term cultivation. The continuous 4647 cell line was tested at the L. A. Tarasevich State Institute of SK. The seeding and working banks of 4647-cell culture at passages 108 and 128 are recommended as a substrate for cultivation of the strain b7,5S2-S vaccinia, used to prepare a bivaccine against smallpox and hepatitis B.

Development of cell culture (MDCK) live cold-adapted (CA) attenuated influenza vaccine.

Optimal conditions are determined for growing cold-adapted reassortant strains of a live influenza vaccine in MDCK cell line cultivated in a fermenter with a serum-free medium and microcarriers. The studied MDCK cell line meet all national and WHO requirements for the finite cell lines used for the production of biological preparations. CA reassortant vaccine strains grown in such conditions which fully preserve its mutations and the mutations lead to amino acid substitution in all genome segments of the studied CA reassortants. Under optimal cultivation conditions, the output of a monovalent live CA influenza vaccine in a 10-l fermenter may reach 100,000 doses.

[Further development (MDCK) of live cold-adapted influenza vaccine: cultivation of vaccine strains in production fermenters].

Optimal conditions were developed for cultivating the cold-adapted reassortant live influenza vaccine (CARLIV) in MDCK cells, which were in their turn cultivated in fermenters with serum-free medium and microcarrier. The use of MDCK cells meets all national and WHO requirements to continuous cells used in the production of biological preparations. CARLIV cultivated under such conditions well preserve their ts-mutations and mutation, which entail substitutions of amino acids, in all CARLIV genome segments. Provided the cultivation conditions are optimal, the output of multivalent CARLIV in a 101 fermenter can reach 100000 doses.

[Development and certification of libraries of the MDCK continuous cell line for production of influenza vaccine].

Seeding and working banks of the continuous MDCK cell culture suitable for the production of cultured influenza vaccine were created and deposited at liquid nitrogen temperature at the "Vector" State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology. The MDCK cell culture was shown to have morphology typical of the discussed cell line; it does not have any alien agents and is oncogenically safe; its enzimogram and karyotype are typical of the donor line; finally, its biological properties are stable during a long period of cultivation and its sensitivity to influenza virus is high, therefore, it can be recommended for the production of influenza vaccine. The continuous MDCK cell line was certified at Tarasevich Committee and was recommended by the MIBP Committee, Russia's Health Ministry, for its use as a substrate in the production of diagnostic and preventive immunoglobulins.

[Characteristics of continuous cell line 293 used for preparation of antineoplastic agent Cancerolysin].

Certification of continuous cell 293 culture used for cultivation of antineoplastic preparation Cancerolysin was carried out. The seeding and working banks of cells 293 were established and deposited for storage at the Vector Centre. The cells were certified in accordance with the WHO requirements. The cell 293 culture was shown to have high proliferative activity; morphology typical of the line; its karyotype and enzymogram are typical of human cells; the culture is not contaminated with bacteria, fungi, mycoplasms and viruses including oncogenic ones; it has high virus-producing activity; it preserves stability of all the biological properties in long-term cultivation. The seeding and working cell banks were recommended for the use in production of drugs for the treatment of oncologic patients.

[Effects of hyaluronic acid preparation on the development of herpetic infection in cell culture]. / Vliianie preparata gialuronovoi kisloty na rasvitie gerpeticheskoi infektsii v kul'ture kletok.

Cell culture experiments demonstrated antiviral activity of a new hyaluronic acid preparation towards HSV-2. The active concentration of hyaluronic acid is at least 5%.

[Antimicrobial activity of hyaluronic acid]. / Antimikrobnaia aktivnost' gialuronovoi kisloty.

In this work the biological activity of hyaluronic acid (HA), isolated from fowl crests, is evaluated. The data on the physico-chemical analysis of HA are presented. The preparation obtained is characterized by a high content of the main substance and high relative viscosity. Sterilization conditions for HA, depending on the degree of microbial contamination of the preparation, were carried out. As revealed in this study, irradiation with a dose of 1.0 Mrad is sufficient for obtaining a sterile preparation. HA has been found to possess inhibiting activity with respect to Pseudomonas.

[Hyaluronic acid: biological role, structure, synthesis, isolation, purification, and application (review)]. / Gialuronovaia kislota: biologicheskaia rol', stroenie, sintez, vydelenie, ochistka i primenenie (obzor).

The methods for isolation and purification of hyaluronic acid are summarized. The structural properties of this mucopolysaccharide are discussed, and hyaluronic acid-hydrolyzing enzymes are characterized. Data on the biological role, properties, and content of hyaluronic acid in tissues are reviewed. The possibilities of the application of hyaluronic acid in medicine, cosmetology, veterinary science, and hygiene are discussed.

[Conditions controlling the development of distant intercellular interactions during ultraviolet radiation]. / Usloviia vozniknoveniia distantnykh mezhkletochnykh vzaimodeistvii pri UF-radiatsii.

The study is concerned with ascertaining the role of UV radiation in distant intercellular interactions (DII) and the conditions resulting in "MIRROR" CYTOPATHIC EFFECT ("M" CPE). It has been found that the UV radiation-induced extreme state of the cells in a radiant culture produces distantly in an intact detector culture, which has only an optic contact with it, the cytopathic effect (CPE) as a repercussion of a specificity of morphological manifestations imprinted in the affected culture. UV preparadiation of the detector cells aids in manifestation of the "mirror" CPE.