Rabies and Neuronal Tracing
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...neural connectivity (Nassi et al. 2015). The recombinant viruses typically used in neuroscience research...transmitted transsynaptically). This is because the recombinant forms of these viruses typically used in research...G receptor is restricted to presynaptic nerve terminals (Lafon 2005). Therefore, once RABV is released... it is only taken up by the presynaptic nerve terminals of adjacent neurons (i.e., it is taken up by projection... neural tracing. Using these technologies in combination with molecular tools (e.g., optogenetic or chemogenetic...characteristics of a G-deficient rabies virus recombinant: an in vitro and in vivo study. J Gen Virol. ...Osakada F, Callaway EM. Design and generation of recombinant rabies virus vectors. Nat Protoc. 2013;8:1583...