Rabies and Neuronal Tracing
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 29, 2018, 1:51 p.m.
...able to replicate, and for a virus to cross a synapse from one cell to another, it must replicate.
Modified...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...G-deleted RABV will infect the starter cell. RABV replication will then occur and the G protein (supplied in...order neurons, the G-deleted RABV can divide and replicate (since these processes are mediated by other viral...Wickersham et al., 2007).
Summary and RABV applications
Use of G deleted RABV in conjunction with restricted...