Methods and techniques in virology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Payment, Pierre, Trudel, Michel, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Marcel Dekker, [1993]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Laboratory safety
  • Types of containment
  • Monolayer cell culture
  • Cell culture media
  • Maintenance of cell cultures
  • Cell cloning
  • Colony formation test
  • Cryopreservation
  • Chromosome preparations
  • Isolation and identification of viruses
  • Preparation of specimens
  • Inoculation to embryonated eggs
  • Isolation of viruses in cell cultures
  • Identification of viruses
  • Animal models
  • Major species
  • Factors influencing the choice and use of animals
  • Visible signs
  • Inoculation of laboratory animals
  • Supplies
  • Methods
  • Concentration of viruses
  • Methods
  • Applications
  • Protein assays
  • Spectrophotometric method
  • Colorimetric method
  • Ultracentrifugation
  • Differential centrifugation
  • Density gradient centrifugation
  • Parameters of ultracentrifugation
  • Chromatography
  • Gel filtration
  • Ion-exchange chromatography
  • Affinity chromatography
  • Electrophoresis
  • Electron microscopy
  • Specimen fixation
  • Negative staining
  • Serology
  • Supplies
  • Hemadsorption: inhibition test
  • Hemagglutination
  • Hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test.
  • (cont) Neutralization test
  • Immunoassays and detection of specific classes of immunoglobulins
  • Immunofluorescence
  • Preparation of material
  • Methods
  • Microscopy
  • Immunoperoxidase
  • Light microscopy
  • PAP and ABC methods
  • ELISA
  • Antibody detection
  • Monoclonal antibodies: identification of antigenic sites
  • Competition assay
  • Selection of antigenic variants
  • Histology and histochemistry
  • Tissue fixation
  • Impregnation
  • Embedding
  • Cryostat sections
  • Sections staining
  • Staining of cells in wells and on coverslips
  • Exfoliative cytology
  • Mounting
  • Immunocytochemical staining in electron microscopy
  • Ferritin
  • Horseradish peroxidase
  • Colliodal gold
  • Metabolic and chemical radiolabeling
  • Nucleic acids
  • Proteins
  • Polysaccharides
  • Lipids
  • Identification of viral proteins by immunoprecipitation
  • Identification of viral proteins by western blotting
  • Peptide mapping
  • Protein separation in polyacrylamide gels
  • Chemical cleavage
  • Agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA molecules
  • Genotyping
  • Extraction of viral nucleic acids.
  • (cont) In vitro translation
  • In vitro translation systems
  • Cloning of genes from DNA viruses
  • Synthesis of complementary DNA
  • Synthesis of complementary DNA from single-stranded RNA
  • Spreading and visualization of nucleic acid molecules in electron microscopy
  • Material
  • Transfer techniques
  • Contrasting the nucleic acids
  • Molecular weight determinations
  • Molecular hybridization
  • In situ hybridization of bacterial colony
  • Southern blot hybridization
  • Northern blotting
  • Hybridization
  • Detection of hybrids and reuse of filters
  • Virus detection by hybridization
  • Polymerase chain reaction
  • General principles
  • Solutions
  • Method.