Population
Mice and tissue culture cells
Comparison
Membrane-bound virions of a diabetogenic strain… vs Virions of the same strain, or a combination of…
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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MBVs may drive greater glucose intolerance than virions in mice; leaves open relevance to human enteroviral diabetes pathogenesis.
Membrane-bound virions of coxsackievirus B4 are more pathogenic and induce higher glucose intolerance in mice compared to standard virions, despite being less infective.
Chatterjee et al. (1988) studied this question.
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