Spinal cord ventral horns and lymphoid organ involvement in powassan virus infection in a mouse model

Viruses

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Santos, Rodrigo I ^a,b   Hermance, Meghan E ^a   Gelman, Benjamin B ^a   Thangamani, Saravanan ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphoid organs infection; Poliomyelitis like syndrome; Powassan virus

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTPOLIOMYELITIS SYNDROME; POWASSAN ENCEPHALITIS; POWASSAN VIRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; TUNEL ASSAY; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS TITRATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL TROPISM;

EID: 84983036030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v8080220     Document Type: Article

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