Specific infection of central nervous system white matter by a variant of gross murine leukemia virus.

doi:10.1016/0042-6822(90)90496-e

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Specific infection of central nervous system white matter by a variant of gross murine leukemia virus.

Virology - 1 Jul 1990

Simonian N A, Rosenthal L A, Korostoff J, Hickey W F, Blank K J, Gaulton G N

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Exposure of neonatal Balb.B mice to a variant of Gross murine leukemia virus, termed WB91-GV, resulted in selective white matter infection within the central nervous system. Viral antigens were detected in brain sections of animals inoculated by either intracerebral or intraperitoneal routes, but...

Topics

AKR murine leukemia virus
Aging
Animals
Animals, Newborn
Astrocytes
Brain
Cells, Cultured
Genetic Variation
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Neuroglia
Neurons
Oligodendroglia
Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic
Viral Envelope Proteins

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