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TWiV 426: I’m Axl, and I’ll be your cervid today

  • January 29, 2017
  • Tagged as: AXL, cervid, chronic wasting disease, Gas6, innate immunity, interferon, PMCA, prion, protein misfolding, SOCS-1, viral, virology, virus, virus entry, virus receptor, viruses, Zika virus
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The sages of TWiV explain how chronic wasting disease of cervids could be caused by spontaneous misfolding of prion protein, and the role of the membrane protein Axl in Zika virus entry into cells.

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TWiV 406: Pow, right in the enteroids!

  • September 11, 2016
  • Tagged as: AXL, cell receptor, conjunctivitis, enteroid, norovirus, organoid, stem cell, tears, uveitis, viral, virology, virus, viruses, Zika virus
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The TWiV team discusses eye infections caused by Zika virus, failure of Culex mosquitoes to transmit the virus, and replication of norovirus in stem cell derived enteroids.

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