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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="other" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik dermatologii i venerologii</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik dermatologii i venerologii</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник дерматологии и венерологии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0042-4609</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-6294</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Rossijskoe Obschestvo Dermatovenerologov i Kosmetologov</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">193</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.25208/0042-4609-2015-91-6-17-29</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>SHORT COMMUNICATION</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>КРАТКИЕ СООБЩЕНИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject></subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Experimental models of leprosy</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Экспериментальное моделирование лепры</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kubanov</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кубанов</surname><given-names>А. А.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Karamova</surname><given-names>A. E.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Карамова</surname><given-names>А. Э.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>Karamova@cnikvi.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Vorontsova</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Воронцова</surname><given-names>А. А.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kalinina</surname><given-names>P. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Калинина</surname><given-names>П. А.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">State Research Center of Dermatovenereology and Cosmetology, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">ФГБУ «Государственный научный центр дерматовенерологии и косметологии» Минздрава России</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">ГБОУ ДПО «Российская медицинская академия последипломного образования» Минздрава России</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2015-12-24" publication-format="electronic"><day>24</day><month>12</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>91</volume><issue>6</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>17</fpage><lpage>29</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2017-08-24"><day>24</day><month>08</month><year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2015, Kubanov A.A., Karamova A.E., Vorontsova A.A., Kalinina P.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2015, Кубанов А.А., Карамова А.Э., Воронцова А.А., Калинина П.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2015</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kubanov A.A., Karamova A.E., Vorontsova A.A., Kalinina P.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Кубанов А.А., Карамова А.Э., Воронцова А.А., Калинина П.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://vestnikdv.ru/jour/article/view/193">https://vestnikdv.ru/jour/article/view/193</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) is a chronic granulomatous bacterial disease which mainly affects skin and peripheral nervous system. Leprosy is caused by the obligate intercellular pathogen known as Mycobacterium leprae. Creating experimental models of leprosy is associated with serious problems due to biological characteristics of the pathogen. Numerous attempts to develop experimental models on different types of animals resulted in a few reproducible models on mice and nine-banded armadillos. Strains of knockout mice with genetic defects caused by site-directed mutagenesis are used as a basis for different leprosy models. Experimental models of leprosy are used for screening of anti-leprosy drugs, detection of drug resistance, studies on the pathogenesis of leprosy, production and evaluation of viability of M. leprae, developing of anti-leprosy vaccines.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Лепра (болезнь Хансена) - хроническая гранулематозная бактериальная инфекция, поражающая преимущественно кожные покровы и периферическую нервную систему. Возбудитель лепры - облигатный внутриклеточный микроорганизм Mycobacterium leprae. Экспериментальное моделирование лепрозной инфекции сопряжено со значительными трудностями, связанными с биологическими особенностями возбудителя. Многочисленные попытки создания экспериментальных моделей на различных группах животных привели к созданию нескольких воспроизводимых моделей на мышах и на девятипоясных броненосцах. Линии нокаутных мышей, генетические дефекты которых были созданы с помощью направленного мутагенеза, служат основой для создания различных экспериментальных моделей лепры. Экспериментальное моделирование лепры позволяет проводить скрининг противолепрозных препаратов, определять резистентность к этим препаратам, изучать патогенез заболевания, получать M. leprae и определять жизнеспособность бактерий, разработать и изучать противолепрозные вакцины.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>лепра</kwd><kwd>лабораторные животные</kwd><kwd>экспериментальная модель</kwd><kwd>leprosy</kwd><kwd>laboratory animals</kwd><kwd>experimental models</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Дегтярев О.В., меснянкина О.А., Наумов В.з. Применение гептрала (адеметионина) в терапии поражений печени у больных лепрой. Вестник дерматол венерол 2010; (3): 57-60</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Первухин Ю.В., Дуйко Д.В. Экспериментальная лепра: прошлое, настоящее и будущее. 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