Caveats in transneuronal tracing with unmodified rabies virus: An evaluation of aberrant results using a nearly perfect tracing technique

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 10, Issue JUL2016, 2016, Pages

  Ruigrok, Tom J H ^a   van Touw, Sven ^a   Coulon, Patrice ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebellar nuclei; Cerebellum; Inferior olivary afferents; Inferior olive; Neuronal degeneration; Purkinje cells; Rabies virus; Viral infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INVASION; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM MOLECULAR LAYER; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; DIENCEPHALON; DRUG DESIGN PROGRAM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLIOSIS; GRANULE CELL; HIND LIMB MUSCLE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; MALE; MESODIENCEPHALIC JUNCTION; MICROGLIA; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; RABIES VIRUS; RABIES VIRUS CVS 11; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SURVIVAL TIME; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; LOWER LIMB; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PROCEDURES; RABIES; SENSORY NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VIROLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PURKINJE CELLS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84989961271     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2016.00046     Document Type: Article

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