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Effect of human apolipoprotein E genotype on the pathogenesis of experimental ocular HSV-1.
Experimental eye research - 1 Aug 2008
Bhattacharjee Partha S, Neumann Donna M, Foster Timothy P, Bouhanik Saadallah, Clement Christian, Vinay Dass, Thompson Hilary W, Hill James M
Abstract excerpt
The isoform-specific role of human apolipoprotein E (apoE) has been assessed in a mouse model of ocular herpes. Female, age-matched transgenic mice knocked-in for the human allele apoE3 or apoE4 and their parent C57Bl/6 mice were inoculated corneally with HSV-1 strain KOS. Ocular HSV-1 pathogenesis was monitored through viral replication and clinical progression of stromal opacity and neovascularization by...
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