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A Murine Model of Dengue Virus-induced Acute Viral Encephalitis-like Disease
Published on: April 28, 2019
Animal models of retroviral encephalopathies: feline model
Michael Podell1, Wayne R Buck, Kathleen A Hayes
1The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
|April 23, 2008
Abstract:
Human immunodeficiency virus infection in children and adults results in a progressive neurodegenerative disease consistent with a predominant subcortical mediated dementia. Techniques for developing a feline model of the early stages of lentiviral-associated neurodegeneration are presented. The behavioral, neurophysiologic, immunologic, virologic, and neuropathologic aspects of this model are also described.
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