Latency Strategies of Herpesviruses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Minarovits, Janos (Editor), Gonczol, Eva (Editor), Valyi-Nagy, Tibor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Virology.; Veterinary medicine.; Microbiology.; Bacteriology.; Animal genetics.; Biomedicine.; Veterinary Medicine.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.

Latency is a fascinating property of herpesviruses which ensures the maintenance of their genetic information in their hosts for an extended period in the absence of productive virus replication. Focusing on human herpesviruses and animal models of herpesvirus-associated human diseases, this is the...

Table of Contents:

• Latency Strategies of Alphaherpesviruses: Herpes Simplex Virus and Varicella-Zoster Virus Latency in Neurons
• Modulation of Apoptotic Pathways by Herpes Simplex Viruses
• Cytomegalovirus Latency
• Human Herpesvirus 6 and Human Herpesvirus 7
• Murid Herpesvirus 4 (MuHV-4): An Animal Model for Human Gammaherpesvirus Research
• Latency Strategies of Equine Herpesviruses
• The Multifunctional Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus
• Epstein-Barr Virus.