... with the currently circulating Asian lineage of ZIKV (MEX1-44), DENV2 grows slower, causes less neuronal death and fails to cause postnatal animal death. Surprisingly, our side-by-side comparison uncovered that the African ZIKV isolate (MR-766) is more potent at causing brain damage and postnatal lethality than MEX1...

... neuronal death During the development of the nervous system, the final number of nerve cells in any one adult structure represents the combined effects of additive processes such as cell division and subtractive processes such as cell death. Cell division typically occurs in the ventricular...

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... chemotropic factors neurotrophic factors neuronal death somatotopic projection To understand how these three facets of sensory neurone connections are established in development it is necessary to ascertain the following. First, the means by which sensory nerve fibres are guided to their specific...