Article
Brain infection by neuroinvasive but avirulent murine oncornaviruses.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2000
Asković S, McAtee F J, Favara C, Portis J L
Abstract excerpt
The chimeric murine oncornavirus FrCas(E) causes a rapidly progressive noninflammatory spongiform encephalomyelopathy after neonatal inoculation. The virus was constructed by the introduction of pol-env sequences from the wild mouse virus CasBrE into the genome of a neuroinvasive but nonneurovirulent strain of Friend murine leukemia virus (FMuLV), FB29. Although the brain infection by FrCas(E) as well as that by...
Topics
- Animals
- Astrocytes
- Encephalitis, Viral
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Microglia
- Phenotype
- Retroviridae
- Retroviridae Infections
- Virulence
