Figure 2.
H5N1 IAV could productively infect pancreatic cells while H1N1 and H7N2 showed limited replication. PAN02 and PANC-1 cells were infected with the three IAV subtypes at an equal multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 1 for the periods specified. (A) Cells were homogenized in Trizol reagent and the viral non-structural protein 1 (NS1) gene was quantified using real time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). (B) The culture media supernatant was used to determine viral titers by plaque assay. The results shown here were pooled from three independent replicates (ns, not significantly and ***P < 0.001).