Analysis of the determinants of neurotropism and neurotoxicity of HFV in transgenic mice

Virology

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 338-346

  Tschopp, Roger R ^a   Brandner, Sebastian ^a   Marino, Silvia ^a   Bothe, Katrin ^b   Horak, Ivan ^b   Rethwilm, Axel ^b   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SPUMA VIRUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0029979238     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0069     Document Type: Article

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