The murine coronavirus nucleocapsid gene is a determinant of virulence

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1752-1763

  Cowley, Timothy J ^a   Long, Simon Y ^a,b   Weiss, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BRAIN; CATS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, ANIMAL; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; NEURONS; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRULENCE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS STRAIN 4; MUS;

EID: 75449114210     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01758-09     Document Type: Article

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