
TWiN 33: Viruses leaving the brain
This Week in Neuroscience
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The Lymphatic Vascular Response to Infection in Mice
The lymph, the lymphatic vessls, can increase by so much after infection. It's not that the virus is inducing this, but the host wants to do this in order to try and do more sensing. I spent many years putting poleo virus directly in the brains of mice. When you do that, the mice get brain infection. You can find brain in the c n s. And they also, they also see the lympangigenesis in thesemnigial lymphoid vessels. This isn't happening every time you have a common cold, where there's no i dont think. Not because i don't think that virus is getting in there and it's not enough
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