title: Antibody and complement-mediated cytotoxicity for bovine parainfluenza-3 virus-infected cells.
abstract: An antibody-complement-mediated cytotoxicity assay was employed to determine whether susceptible host cells infected with bovine parainfluenza-3 virus could be destroyed by the humoral immune mechanism. The cytotoxicity assay yielded 21.5% to 76.9% specific release of 51Cr with sera collected from calves 28 days after inoculation with the virus. A multiplicity of infection of 5, a postinfection period of 2 days, an antibody dilution of 1:10, and an incubation period of 12 hours with antibody and complement were found to be optimal for this assay.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology*; D000920:Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D003165:Complement System Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D003601:Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D008297:Male; D010224:Parainfluenza Virus 3, Human / Q000276:immunology; D018184:Paramyxoviridae Infections / Q000276:immunology / Q000662:veterinary*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D003165:Complement System Proteins