Vesicular stomatitis virus enables gene transfer and transsynaptic tracing in a wide range of organisms

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 523, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1639-1663

  Mundell, Nathan A ^a,b   Beier, Kevin T ^a,b,e   Pan, Y Albert ^c,f   Lapan, Sylvain W ^a,b   Göz Aytürk, Didem ^a,b   Berezovskii, Vladimir K ^a   Wark, Abigail R ^a   Drokhlyansky, Eugene ^a,b   Bielecki, Jan ^d   Born, Richard T ^a   Schier, Alexander F ^c   Cepko, Constance L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AB_10562207; AB_531908; AB_591819; Anterograde; Centrifugal; In vivo; Polysynaptic; Retina; Retrograde; RRID: AB_10053281; SciRes_000161; Transsynaptic; Visual pathways; VSV

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL TRACT TRACER; RECOMBINANT VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS VECTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; FISH; HIPPOCAMPUS ERECTUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; JELLYFISH; LEGHORN CHICKEN; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RHESUS MONKEY; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRANSSYNAPTIC TRACING; TRIPEDALIA CYSTOPHORA; VESICULOVIRUS; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM; ZEBRA FISH; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; RABIES VIRUS; VERTEBRATE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; RABIES VIRUS; VERTEBRATES; VESICULAR STOMATITIS; VESICULOVIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84930378168     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23761     Document Type: Article

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