Rabies and Neuronal Tracing
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 29, 2018, 1:51 p.m.
... questions of how the brain operates.
References
1. Callaway EM. Transneuronal Circuit Tracing with Neurotropic...able to replicate, and for a virus to cross a synapse from one cell to another, it must replicate.
Modified...like how our stem cells are housed in specific locations and give rise to progenitors during growth and...infects one cell (the “starter cell”). It then replicates within that cell, and nascent RABV cross synapses...infection occurs, subsequent cycles of viral replication and retrograde transmission occur, spreading ...limitations. First, these high levels of viral replication are toxic. Second, infecting subsequently higher...spread monosynaptically from these cells.
These modifications take advantage of the fact that RABV is an enveloped...