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Viral Tracing of Genetically Defined Neural Circuitry
Published on: October 17, 2012
Association of bluetongue virus gene segment 5 with neuroinvasiveness
M A Carr1, C C de Mattos, C A de Mattos
1Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616.
Journal of Virology
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
Two strains (UC-2 and UC-8) of bluetongue virus were used to determine genetic factors influencing neuroinvasiveness. Reassortants were produced in vitro, and the parental origins of their genes were determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis profiles and restriction endonuclease digestion. Gene segment 5 of UC-8 correlated with neuroinvasiveness of reassortants when inoculated subcutaneously into newborn mice.
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