PMID: 376938Jul 1, 1979Paper

Experimental rabies in skunks: immunofluorescence light and electron microscopic studies

Laboratory Investigation; a Journal of Technical Methods and Pathology
K M Charlton, G A Casey

Abstract

Striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were inoculated into the abductor digiti quinti muscle with street rabies virus isolated from salivary glands of rabid skunks. Using the immunofluorescence technique, antigen was detected in muscle cells at the inoculation site before it was detected in the central nervous system. Neurons and their processes in nearly all regions of the brain, spinal cord, cerebrospinal ganglia, and peripheral nerves contained antigen in terminal stages of the disease. Electron microscopically, matrix (viral nucleocapsid), virions, and anomalous viral products were mainly in neuronal perikarya and dendrites, and less often in myelinated axons. Matrices, virions, and crystalloid structures were in muscle fibers at the inoculation site. Viral budding occurred on endoplasmic reticulum, neurotubules, and neuronal plasma membrane. In the brain and dorsal horn of the spinal cord, virus budded from the postsynaptic and adjacent dendritic or perikaryal plasma membrane. There was simultaneous esotropic uptake of these particles by adjacent axon terminals. The results strongly suggest that direct transneuronal transfer of virus from perikarya and dendrites to adjacent axon terminals is a mechanism in dissemination of ra...Continue Reading

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