Design and generation of recombinant rabies virus vectors

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1583-1601

  Osakada, Fumitaka ^a   Callaway, Edward M ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; GENE DELETION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; RABIES VIRUS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; HEK293 CELL LINE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, VIRAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; RABIES VIRUS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 84888338781     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.094     Document Type: Article

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