Zika in the Adult Brain (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Zika in the Adult Brain

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Illumination of the fluorescent biomarker in green revealed that the adult mouse brain could be infected by Zika in a region called the subgranular zone of the hippocampus. Full of neural progenitor cells, this part of the brain is important in learning and memory.

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Laboratory of Pediatric Brain Disease at The Rockefeller University/<i>Cell Stem Cell</i>

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