Acyclovir treatment of experimentally induced herpes simplex virus encephalitis: Monitoring the changes in immunologic NO synthase expression and viral load within brain tissue of SJL mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 129-132

  Haas, Jürgen ^a   Meyding Lamadé, Uta ^a   Fäth, Almut ^a   Stingele, Karoline ^a   Storch Hagenlocher, Brigitte ^a   Wildemann, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acyclovir; Herpes simplex virus encephalitis; Immunologic NO synthase

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS LOAD;

ACYCLOVIR; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BRAIN; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 0033515780     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00191-3     Document Type: Article

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