Establishing a Cultivable Cell Line of the Tick Dermacentor marginatus


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Owing to the changes in the general ecological situation in Russia, livestock losses from ovine anaplasmosis have rapidly increased in recent years. The development of a vaccine against this disease is therefore all the more relevant. A continuous culture of tick cells could be used as an appropriate substrate for producing biomass of the pathogen of ovine anaplasmosis, Anaplasma ovis, for the purpose of manufacturing a cell-cultural inactivated vaccine. Such a continuous cell line of the tick Dermacentor marginatus, the definitive reservoir host of A. ovis, has been obtained by cultivation of homogenized tick eggs on a modified Leibovitz medium L15. The established cell line DM-77 has an undifferentiated phenotype: the cells are rounded, with large nuclei and well-visible nucleoli. By the end of the study, the cell line was passaged eight times and did not express signs of growth rate decrease. The duplication time was 2.8 ± 0.3 days for cultivation in a medium with 10% fetal serum at 32°C.

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N. I. Rimikhanov

Department of Veterinary Medicine, Moscow State University of Food Production

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 125080

E. Yu. Epova

Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119334

A. V. Belyakova

Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119334

A. A. Lebedeva

Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 11991

E. S. Mutnykh

Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 11991

Yu. K. Biryukova

Research Laboratory Genetika, Kursk State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Kursk, 305000

M. V. Zylkova

Research Laboratory Genetika, Kursk State University

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Kursk, 305000

A. V. Shibaeva

Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119334

E. V. Trubnikova

Research Laboratory Genetika, Kursk State University

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Kursk, 305000

D. A. Karataeva

Department of Parasitology and Veterinary-Sanitary Examination, Skryabin Moscow State Academy
of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 109472

R. M. Akbaev

Department of Parasitology and Veterinary-Sanitary Examination, Skryabin Moscow State Academy
of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 109472

Y. Y. Tyno

Department of Parasitology and Veterinary-Sanitary Examination, Skryabin Moscow State Academy
of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 109472

B. K. Laypanov

Department of Parasitology and Veterinary-Sanitary Examination, Skryabin Moscow State Academy
of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

Email: biriukova-ula@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 109472

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