Production of glycoprotein-deleted rabies viruses for monosynaptic tracing and high-level gene expression in neurons

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 595-606

  Wickersham, Ian R ^a   Sullivan, Heather A ^a   Seung, H Sebastian ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LENTIVIRINAE; MAMMAL CELL; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTYPING; RABIES VIRUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PURIFICATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; NEURONS; RABIES VIRUS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRUS CULTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 77749320537     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.248     Document Type: Article

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