“…Early descriptions of assays used to monitor the activity of the toxin preparations included induction of turbinate atrophy after intranasal exposure in piglets [14,20,[31][32][33][34][35][36][37]; induction of atrophic rhinitis and other organ lesions after intramuscular, intraperitoneal, or intravenous injection [31,[36][37][38][39][40][41]; induction of atrophic rhinitis and pneumonia in rabbits [34,42]; guinea pig or rat dermonecrotic lesion assays [34,[43][44][45]; BALB/c mouse lethality assay [18,34,44,46]; and cell culture assays of cytopathicity [42,[47][48][49]. Results from these studies demonstrated that purified Pasteurella multocida toxin (PMT) alone could induce turbinate atrophy and other symptoms of disease, as well as lethality, dermonecrotic, cytopathic, mitogenic, and other biological effects.…”