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How Does Mixoma Virus Affect Rabbit Immune Response?
Mixoma virus, mixoma viruss has a whole bunch of proteins that regulate the host immune system in a way that facilitates infection. So they have these proteins that, for example, inhibit pro apoptotic molecules. Apoptosis is programmed cell death. They also have other proteins that help to interfere with the coordination and ment of leucosites of white blood cells. These are really important in how much rabbit is going to be able to resist, or be susceptible to severe infection.