Article
High susceptibility of FVB/N mice to the paralytic disease induced by ts1, a mutant of Moloney murine leukemia virus TB.
Virology - 1 Jan 1991
Wong P K, Floyd E, Szurek P F
Abstract excerpt
The ts1 mutant of Moloney murine leukemia virus TB causes a degenerative neurologic and immunologic disease in susceptible strains of mice. This disease syndrome is characterized by development of spongiform encephalomyelopathy resulting in hindlimb paralysis, generalized bodywasting, and marked...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Brain
- Disease Susceptibility
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Moloney murine leukemia virus
- Mutation
- Paralysis
- Spinal Cord
- Spleen
- Thymus Gland
