Fig. 7.
Neutralizing antibody titers produced by cotton rats after inoculation with recombinant MV. Cotton rats were intranasally inoculated with 1.0 × 106 PFU of rMV-Hu191 or rMV-Hu191 mutants in 0.1 ml of Opti-MEM medium. (A) Weekly blood samples were collected from each cotton rat by facial vein retro-orbital bleeding, and serum was tested for neutralizing antibodies by a plaque-reduction neutralization assay. (B) Recombinant MVs carrying mutations in the SAM binding site elicited significantly higher levels (p < 0.05) of neutralizing antibodies at 4 weeks post-inoculation. * =p < 0.05; * *=p < 0.01; *** =p < 0.001.