{"id":26251,"date":"2026-10-20T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/?p=26251"},"modified":"2026-10-21T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:23:36","slug":"european-sea-bass-red-blood-cells-contribute-to-the-antiviral-response-against-rgnnv-nodavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/european-sea-bass-red-blood-cells-contribute-to-the-antiviral-response-against-rgnnv-nodavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"European sea bass red blood cells contribute to the antiviral response against RGNNV nodavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\">New research by the &#8220;Erythrocytes in Antiviral Immunology&#8221; group at IDiBE reveals that red blood cells\u00a0in European sea bass (<em>Dicentrarchus labrax<\/em>)\u00a0act as\u00a0immunocompetent cells against red-spotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\">Using transcriptomic analysis, the research team\u00a0identified the\u00a0activation of mechanisms associated with innate antiviral immunity, interferon signaling, antigen presentation and the cellular stress response. The results show that red blood cells are susceptible to RGNNV and actively respond to infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\">Published in\u00a0<em>Fish &amp; Shellfish Immunology<\/em>, this study contributes to a better understanding of the immune response to one of the viruses that most severely affects European sea bass and opens new avenues for research in aquatic animal health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\">Congratulations to all the authors:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\">Celia Garc\u00eda Quintanilla,\u00a0Ver\u00f3nica Chico Gras,\u00a0Mar\u00eda Salvador Mira,\u00a0Yeray Kevin Cerpa Damas, MSc,\u00a0Adri\u00e1n L\u00f3pez Murcia,\u00a0Manuel Solivella Rodr\u00edguez, Miguel \u00c1ngel Garc\u00eda \u00c1lvarez,\u00a0Alberto Cuesta\u00a0and\u00a0Mar\u00eda del Mar Ortega-Villaiz\u00e1n Romo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\">This research was funded by the\u00a0<strong>ThinkInAzul <\/strong>programme, project GVA-THINKINAZUL\/2021\/020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\">Full article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.fsi.2026.111736\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.fsi.2026.111736<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research by the &#8220;Erythrocytes in Antiviral Immunology&#8221; group at IDiBE reveals that red blood cells\u00a0in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)\u00a0act as\u00a0immunocompetent cells against red-spotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV). Using transcriptomic analysis, the research team\u00a0identified the\u00a0activation of mechanisms associated with innate antiviral immunity, interferon signaling, antigen presentation and the cellular stress response. The results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24398,"featured_media":26254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idibe.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}