Construction of recombinant pseudorabies viruses optimized for labeling and neurochemical characterization of neural circuitry

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 105-118

  Boldogköi, Zsolt ^a,f   Reichart, Aniko ^a   Tóth, Ida E ^a   Sik, Attila ^b   Erdélyi, Ferenc ^b   Medveczky, Istvan ^c   Llorens Cortes, Catherine ^d   Palkovits, Miklos ^a   Lenkei, Zsolt ^a,d,e  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e Brain Plasticity Unit   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Herpesvirus; Pseudorabies virus; Serotonin transporter; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Viral tract tracing

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RNA ANALYSIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; GENES, REPORTER; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; SUID HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 0037203264     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(02)00546-6     Document Type: Article

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