Simian varicella virus expresses a latency-associated transcript that is antisense to open reading frame 61 (ICP0) mRNA in neural ganglia of latently infected monkeys

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 8149-8156

  Ou, Yang ^a   Davis, Kara A ^a   Traina Dorge, Vicki ^b   Gray, Wayne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CERVICAL GANGLION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFECTION; LIVER; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SIMIAN VARICELLA VIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICKENPOX; GANGLIA; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, MESSENGER; VARICELLOVIRUS; VIRUS LATENCY;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 9; CERCOPITHECUS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; PRIMATES; SAL VIEJA VIRUS;

EID: 34547112797     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00407-07     Document Type: Article

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