[Hepatotropic action of the virus of West Nile fever].
An experimental infection of mice with West Nile Virus (WNFV) showed pronounced dystrophic changes in the hepatic parenchyma and expression of WNV antigens in the endothelium of hepatic capillaries and in hepatocyte cytoplasm, which testifies to the tropic action of WNFV to hepatic tissue.
Pisarev
V B
VB
Butenko
A M
AM
Petrov
V A
VA
Grigor'eva
N V
NV
Larichev
V F
VF
D000818:Animals; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000821:virology; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000821:virology; D022781:Hepatocytes / Q000821:virology; D008099:Liver / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D051379:Mice; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000473:pathology*; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification
D000956:Antigens, Viral