Selective vulnerability of mouse CNS neurons to latent infection with a neuroattenuated herpes simplex virus-1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 5644-5653

  Kesari, Santosh ^a,b   Lee, Virginia M Y ^b   Brown, S Moira ^c   Trojanowski, John Q ^b   Fraser, Nigel W ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gene transfer; herpes simplex virus; ICP34.5; latency; neuronspecific gene expression; viral vectors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0029810064     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-18-05644.1996     Document Type: Article

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