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US 2018/0161417 A1Published application
Immortalized Porcine Alveolar Macrophage
AssigneeIntervet Inc.
InventorsJaap Kool, Carla Christina Schrier
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Abstract
The present invention relates to immortalized porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs), to cell cultures comprising such PAMs, to methods for the immortalization of PAMs, to methods of replicating PRRS virus on immortalised PAMs and to methods for the preparation of vaccines comprising PRRSV.
Claims12
An immortalized porcine alveolar macrophage (PAM), wherein the PAM is susceptible to Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Virus (PRRSV), expresses an SV40 T antigen and does not comprise retroviral Long Terminal Repeat DNA capable of retroviral gene expression.
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