Viral gene expression in rat trigeminal ganglia following neonatal infection with varicella-zoster virus

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 286-290

  Brunell, Philip A ^a,b   Ren, Liu Chun ^a   Cohen, Jeffrey I ^b   Straus, Stephen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ganglia; Latency; Newborn rats; Varicella zoster; VZV DNA; VZV RNA

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, VIRAL; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 0344573882     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199907)58:3<286::AID-JMV15>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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