Speculation This experimental model obviates consideration of placental dysfunction as a cause of diminished embryonic growth and immunoglobulin production. Thus, virus may either directly reduce the size of cells or their rate of division in embryonic organs or alter cardiac output with consequent peripheral hypoperfusion. A more subtle disturbance of bursal cell function must occur in the absence of abundant viral replication to explain the appearance of transient dysgammaglobulinemia.
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