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Bone Research
Researchers at State University of New York release new data on bone research
April 10th, 2007
New research, "Two alphaherpesvirus latency-associated gene products influence calcitonin gene-related peptide levels in rat trigeminal neurons," is the subject of a report. "Herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) initially infects mucoepithelial tissues of the eye and the orofacial region. Subsequently, the virus is retrogradely transported through the axons of the trigeminal sensory neurons," scientists in the United States report. "HSV-1 establishes a life-long latent infection in these neurons, during which the transcription of the viral genome is silent, except for the sequences encoding the latency-associated transcript (LAT). To determine if HSV-1 latency might...
Source: Virus Weekly (2007-04-10)
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