Cytopathic effect

Currently, many patients in clinical practice do not understand themselves very well, especially some technical terms. Although they know that they are suffering from physical discomfort, they are not particularly clear about it. Like the cytopathic effect in medicine, this is a situation where a virus multiplies in large numbers and causes cell damage or even death. Patients with this condition do not need to be overly nervous, as there are corresponding treatments available clinically. This article introduces the relevant content, let’s take a look.

Specifically, when tissue cells are cultured in vitro, cytolytic viruses replicate and proliferate in large quantities in susceptible cells, leading to cell death or cell rounding, falling off, aggregation, etc., which is called cytopathic effect. [1]

In in vitro experiments, through cell culture and inoculation of cytocidal viruses, after a certain period of time, phenomena such as cell rounding, necrosis, and falling off the bottle wall can be observed under a microscope. This is called cytopathic effect. Abbreviation CPE. Refers to cell degeneration caused by virus infection of tissue culture cells. This pathological effect can be used to quantify the virus. Generally speaking, tumor viruses have a weaker effect or do not have CPE.

There are mainly the following types: 1. The whole cell changes. There are two situations. One is that the nucleus and the whole cell are swollen, the cytoplasm changes into granular changes, and the edge of the cell membrane is irregular; the other is that the whole cell shrinks, becomes rounded, and finally breaks and falls off, which is more common in enterovirus, poxvirus, respiratory virus, rhinovirus, and coxsackievirus; 2. Cells aggregate, such as adenovirus; 3. Cells fuse to form syncytia, that is, most cells fuse with each other to form "giant cells", but the nuclei of each cell can still be distinguished, such as paramyxovirus and herpes virus; 4. The cells only have slight lesions, such as orthomyxovirus, rabies virus, coronavirus, retrovirus and arenavirus.

Don't be so afraid of cell degeneration. Both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine have ways to inhibit the spread of cell degeneration in the early stages. When the cell degeneration is still in the early stages, that is, when the cell degeneration is detected in a western hospital, after it has been suppressed, it is better to use traditional Chinese medicine. Because there are many factors that lead to cancer cells, such as lifestyle, emotions, behavioral habits, etc.! Traditional Chinese medicine has some unique insights in this regard. Traditional Chinese medicine does not say that you should take medicine for chemotherapy. We will use "corrective" methods to manage cancer cells and not stimulate them, so the body will generally not have many problems!