Publication Date:
1983-04-29
Description:
Variants of the Dearing strain of reovirus type 3 with antigenically altered hemagglutinin proteins are much less neurovirulent than the parental virus. When injected intracerebrally into mice these variants infected a subset of the brain neurons that were infected by the parental virus. When injected intraperitoneally, the variants did not spread to the brain. These results indicate that minor modifications of the reovirus hemagglutinin dramatically alter the ability of the virus to spread into and injure the central nervous system.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Spriggs, D R -- Bronson, R T -- Fields, B N -- NS-16998-01/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Apr 29;220(4596):505-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6301010" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
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Brain/pathology
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Brain Diseases/*microbiology/pathology
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Hemagglutination Tests
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Mammalian orthoreovirus 3/immunology/*pathogenicity
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Mice
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Reoviridae/*pathogenicity
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Reoviridae Infections/microbiology/pathology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
