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PRINCESS ANNE, MD- (July 27, 2020)-Multi-disciplinary researchers at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore have gained funding from the USDA to aid in a method for early detection of bovine herpesvirus type 1 infection in cows, a disease that costs the U.S. cattle industry approximately $3 billion in losses each year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Dr. Kimberly Braxton, an assistant professor in UMES\u2019 Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences<\/a> and its on-site veterinarian, BHV-1 causes a number of serious complications including an immune suppression called bovine respiratory disease complex.  Early detection, which is not readily available at this time, is vital to the industry for agriculture and commercial purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) upon viral infection is a recently investigated topic that holds great promise for early disease detection,\u201d said Dr. Victor Hsia, a professor and chair of UMES\u2019 pharmacy program<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BHV-1 belongs to the family of alphaherpesvirinae, including some human herpesviruses such as Herpes Simplex Virus and Varicella Zoster Virus, Hsia said.  They share similar genomes, structure and infection modes.  A compound, gamma-butyrolactone, was released upon the Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 acute infection and could restrict viral replication, making the first reported discovery that a herpesvirus could trigger the release of VOC from infected cells. The compound, he said, serves as a stress signal for bacteria and could be a potential molecular biomarker for BHV-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur central hypothesis is that gamma-butyrolactone is part of the cellular self-defense mechanism against the released virus attaching neighboring cells,\u201d said Dr. Yan Waguespack, a professor in UMES\u2019 Department of Natural Sciences<\/a>.  \u201cOur goal is to use a combination of biological and chemical tools to identify how the virus modulates the cells to generate the compound during and after infection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research is funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Capacity Building Grant Program, Grant No. 2019-03291.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gail Stephens, agricultural communications and media associate, School of Agricultural & Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 410-621-3850, <\/em>gcstephens@umes.edu.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRINCESS ANNE, MD- (July 27, 2020)-Multi-disciplinary researchers at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore have gained funding from the USDA to aid in a method for early detection of bovine herpesvirus type 1 infection in cows, a disease that costs the U.S. cattle industry approximately $3 billion in losses each year.  According to Dr. Kimberly…Read more UMES researchers to aid cattle industry<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}