Judul: Primary kidney cell culture biotechnology as a candidate vaccine test material and in-vitro model
Abstrak: Cell culture is a cell population that can proliferate in-vitro, isolating from the original tissue or grown from existing cells. Monkey kidney cell cultures are the one source of cell culture that has an essential role in biomedical research. There is significant homology between the human and macaque genomes making these useful for cultivating human viruses, especially human enteroviruses, and growing vaccines. In this study, we developed cell cultures derived from the kidney of Macaca fascicularis (Mf) and validated its gene expression. The primary cultures have been successfully subcultured up to six passages, grew as monolayer and primarily epithelial-like in morphology; the cultured cells remained heterogeneous in phenotype and they expressed (CD155 and CD46) as viral receptors, cell morphology (CD24, Endosialin, and vWF), proliferation, also apoptosis markers (Ki67 and p53). These result indicate these cell culture have potentiality to be used as in-vitro model cells for vaccine development and bioactive compound.
Keyword: kultur sel ginjal, Macaca fascicularis, reseptor virus, model in-vitro.

Judul: Study of Tupaia javanica Hepatocytes Culture as In Vitro Replication Media of Nonhuman Primate HBV
Abstrak: Virus hepatitis B (VHB) adalah virus DNA yang menginfeksi organ hati sebagai target utama. Infeksi ini menyebabkan hepatitis yang dapat bersifat kronis dan berlanjut menjadi sirosis, kanker hati bahkan kematian. Pengembangan model in vivo dan in vitro berkaitan dengan hepatitis B menjadi perhatian khusus bagi para peneliti. Kultur hepatosit banyak digunakan untuk mempelajari berbagai ha] terkait hepatitis B baik dari aspek virus, penyakit, pencegahan, dan pengobatan. Pengembangan hepatosit asal hewan kecil sepe1ii Tupaia sp. untuk model in vitro merupakan salah satu altematif dalam penyediaan kultur hepatosit. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengembangkan kultur primer dan lestari hepatosit T. javanica yang mampu mendukung replikasi VHB orangutan (OuHBV) dan VHB owa jawa (GiHBV), dan dapat menjawab kebutuhan akan model in vitro kultur hepatosit. Isolasi hepatosit T. javanica dilakukan dengan prosedur sebagai berikut: organ hati yang telah dicacah dalam cawan petri dengan larutan perfusi, diinkubasi pada 37 °C. Suspensi disentrifugasi 300-500 g sehingga didapatkan pelet sel hati. Pelet yang sudah dicuci kemudian diresuspensi dengan Hepatocyte Basal Media untuk menumbuhkan hepatosit dan selanjutnya hepatosit akan ditransformasi menggunakan perangkat Lenti-SV 40. Sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP) yang diindikasikan sebagai reseptor hepatosit untuk melekatnya VHB, nampak pada hepatosit baik pada kultur primer maupun kultur yang ditransformasi. Reseptor hepatosit spesifik ini terlihat sebagai pendaran hijau dengan uji imunofluoresensi. Kultur hepatosit primer T. javanica berhasil dikembangkan selama 14 hari untuk mencapai kepadatan 80%, dan inokulasi GiHBV dan OuHBV ke dalam kultur pada hari ke-15 menunjukkan adanya replikasi virus hingga hari ke-8 (berdasarkan hasil PCR). Kuantifikasi virus dengan real-time PCR memperlihatkan replikasi tertinggi pada hari kedua setelah inokulasi. Penjajaran sebagian protein permukaan setelah virus dinokulasikan memperlihatkan kesamaan asam amino dengan virus wild type sebesar 99.29% dan 95.71 % pada GiHBV dan OuHBV., Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a DNA virus which infects liver as primary target organ. This i11fection causes hepatitis which could become chronic and progress to cirrhosis, liver cancer and even death. Development of in vitro and in vivo model related to hepatitis B is a concern for researchers. Hepatocyte cultures widely used to study a variety of aspects of hepatitis B such as the virus, disease, prevention and treatment. Development qf hepatocyte from small animal e.g. Tupaia sp. for the in vitro model is an alternative of hepatocyte cultures. The purpose of the study is to develop primary and immortal T. javanica hepatocytes cultures capable to replicate orangutan HBV (OuHBV) and javan gibbon HBV (GiHBV), and to answer the need for in vitro model ofhepatocytes. Isolation of hepatocytes from T. javanica was done as followed: mincedliver were transported into petri dish containing perfusion buffer solution to be incubated at 37 °C. The suspension was centrifuged at 300-500 g to obtain liver cell pellets. The washed-pellet was resuspended in Hepatocyte Basal Media to let specific hepatocytes grow and later be transformed by Lenti-SV40 kit. Sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP) has been ident(fied as hepatocyte receptor for HBV attachment, and was seen on hepatocytes from both primary and transformed cultures. This hepatocytes specific receptor was shown as green luminenscent by immunofluorescence assay. Primary T. javanica hepatocytes cultures was successfully maintained for
Keyword: Tupaia javanica, in vitro model, hepatocytes culture, hepatitis B virus, Liver cancer, Picornaviridae, Hepadanaviridae, Flaviviridae, Caliciviridae

Judul: Metrik Einstein (Anti-) Self-Dual Berdimensi Empat dengan Metode Cartan
Abstrak: Gravitational field equation can be formulated in differential forms (differential geometry), which describes gravity as a manifestation of the curvature of space-time. Curvature of space-time is characterized by a metric that satisfies the gravitational field equation. With differential forms it can be formulated the (anti-) self-dual Einstein equation, which is a modification of the Cartan structure in (anti-) self-dual basis. Calculation of (anti-) self-dual metric with (anti-) self-dual Einstein equation is simpler than the calculation using Christoffel symbols.
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