User Settings
Article10.1007/978-1-62703-601-6_18

In Vivo Visualization of Encephalitic Lesions in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) Infected Mice by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Wali Hafezi,Verena Hoerr-2013-01-01-Methods in molecular biology
2

TL;DRAbstract

Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is one of the most severe viral infections affecting the temporal lobes of the brain. Despite the improvements in diagnosis and antiviral drug treatment, one third of all patients fail to respond to therapy or subsequently suffer neurological relapse and develop long term neurological damage. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is among the appropriate noninvasive tools for early diagnosis of viral central nervous system (CNS) infections. In this chapter we introduce a mouse model for HSE and describe a MRI protocol to characterize the pathogenesis of HSE over time.

Chat with Paper

AI Agents for this Paper

Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is one of the most severe viral infections affecting the temporal lobes of the brain. Despite the improvements in diagnosis and antiviral drug treatment, one third of all patients fail to respond to therapy or subsequently suffer neurological relapse and develop long term neurological damage. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is among the appropriate noninvasive tools for early diagnosis of viral central nervous system (CNS) infections. In this chapter we introduce a mouse model for HSE and describe a MRI protocol to characterize the pathogenesis of HSE over time.

Keywords

Herpes simplex virusMagnetic resonance imagingEncephalitisHSL and HSVAntiviral drugMedicinePathogenesisIn vivo

Chat

Click to start Chat