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Mutation of the protein kinase C site in borna disease virus phosphoprotein abrogates viral interference with neuronal signaling and restores normal synaptic activityChristine M A Prat
INSERM, U563, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
PLoS Pathog 5:e1000425. 2009..b>Borna disease virus (BDV) represents an attractive model system to analyze the molecular mechanisms whereby a virus can ..
Neurological diseases and viral dynamics in the brains of neonatally borna disease virus-infected gerbilsM Watanabe
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
Virology 282:65-76. 2001b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a noncytolytic, neurotropic RNA virus that causes a chronic neurological disease in a wide variety of animal species...
Meta-analysis of putative human bornavirus sequences fails to provide evidence implicating Borna disease virus in mental illnessRalf Durrwald
Impfstoffwerk Dessau Tornau GmbH IDT, Rodleben, Germany
Rev Med Virol 17:181-203. 2007All Borna disease virus (BDV) sequences derived from human specimens published till date were thoroughly analysed and compared to sequences of BDV laboratory strains and to BDV sequences from animals which succumbed to classical Borna ..
Transgenic mice expressing the nucleoprotein of Borna disease virus in either neurons or astrocytes: decreased susceptibility to homotypic infection and diseaseMathias Rauer
Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 78:3621-32. 2004The nucleoprotein (N) of Borna disease virus (BDV) is the major target of the disease-inducing antiviral CD8 T-cell response in the central nervous system of mice...
Development of a real-time RT-PCR assay for improved detection of Borna disease virusJonas Johansson Wensman
Joint Research and Development Division in Virology of National Veterinary Institute SVA, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
J Virol Methods 143:1-10. 2007b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a non-segmented, negative-stranded RNA virus, which infects cells of the central nervous system (CNS) in many different species...
Molecular and cellular biology of Borna disease virus infectionKeizo Tomonaga
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
Microbes Infect 4:491-500. 2002b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a noncytolytic, neurotropic RNA virus that causes neurobehavioral disorders in a wide variety of warm-blooded animals...
Experimental infection of mice with Borna disease virus (BDV): replication and distribution of the virus after intracerebral infectionH K Enbergs
Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
J Neurovirol 7:272-7. 2001To develop an animal model resembling natural asymptomatic Borna disease virus (BDV) infections, BDV He/80 rat brain homogenate was passaged four times in adult SJL/J mice...
Borna disease virus-induced accumulation of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in rat brain astrocytes is associated with inhibition of macrophage infiltrationMichael Bacher
Institute of Immunology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Glia 37:291-306. 2002..invasion during virus-induced encephalitis, we analyzed the expression and cellular localization of MIF in the Borna disease virus (BDV)-infected rat brain, monitored monocyte/macrophage infiltration, and evaluated the influence of ..
Humoral immune response against Borna disease virus (BDV) in experimentally and naturally infected catsM Johansson
Department of Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SUAS, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
Vet Immunol Immunopathol 90:23-33. 2002In order to investigate the peripheral and intracerebral humoral immune response against Borna disease virus (BDV) in cats, serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from experimentally and naturally BDV-infected cats were analysed in ..
Borna disease virus and psychiatryO Taieb
Department of Virology, CERVI, , 75013 Paris, France
Eur Psychiatry 16:3-10. 2001b>Borna disease virus (BDV), a noncytolytic neurotropic nonsegmented negative-stranded RNA virus with a wide geographic distribution, infects several vertebrate animal species and causes an immune-mediated central nervous system (CNS) ..
Detection of antibodies to Borna disease virus (BDV) in Turkish horse sera using recombinant p40. Brief reportH Yilmaz
University of Istanbul, Veterinary Faculty, Department of Microbiology, Avcilar, Turkey
Arch Virol 147:429-35. 2002The nucleoprotein of Borna disease virus (BDV-p40) was produced in a Baculovirus expression system using sf9 cells. The purity and specificity of the recombinant p40 was confirmed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting...
Persistence of Borna disease virus in naturally infected sheepThomas W Vahlenkamp
Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
J Virol 76:9735-43. 2002To get an insight into Borna disease virus (BDV) epidemiology, an isolated flock of approximately 25 sheep within the region of Southeast Germany to which the disease is endemic was investigated over a 3-year observation period...
Seroprevalence of Borna disease virus in domestic animals in Xinjiang, ChinaK Hagiwara
School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, 582 Bunkyoudai Midorimachi Ebetsu, 069 8501, Hokkaido, Japan
Vet Microbiol 80:383-9. 2001To investigate the animals infected with Borna disease virus (BDV) in Xinjiang, China, we examined for BDV antibodies in the sera from groups of 20 horses, sheep and cattle, and from 165 wild rodents (18 species) by ELISA and immunoblot...
Effects of genetic background on neonatal Borna disease virus infection-induced neurodevelopmental damage. I. Brain pathology and behavioral deficitsMikhail V Pletnikov
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Brain Res 944:97-107. 2002..In the two consecutive papers, we used the neonatal Borna disease virus (BDV) infection rat model of neurodevelopmental damage to evaluate brain pathology, monoamine ..
Serological evidence for Borna disease virus infection in humans, wild rodents and other vertebrates in FinlandPaula M Kinnunen
Division of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, P O Box 66, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
J Clin Virol 38:64-9. 2007b>Borna disease virus (BDV) can infect many vertebrate species, including humans. BDV infection may lead to meningoencephalomyelitis in animals...
Demonstration of continuously seropositive population against Borna disease virus in Misaki feral horses, a Japanese strain: a four-year follow-up study from 1998 to 2001Yoichi Inoue
Department of Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, Gakuen-Kibanadai, Japan
J Vet Med Sci 64:445-8. 2002b>Borna disease virus (BDV)-specific antibodies were monitored in Misaki feral horses annually for 4 years using an electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA). Among 130 horses examined, 35 (26...
Borna disease virus: a mystery as an emerging zoonotic pathogenJ A Richt
Institut fur Virologie, Frankfurterstrasse 107, D 35392 Giessen, Germany
Vet J 161:24-40. 2001For Central European veterinarians, Borna disease (BD) has been known for a long time as a sporadically occurring, progressive viral polioencephalomyelitis predominantly affecting horses and sheep and-as discovered in the last decade-an ..
Visualizing viral dissemination in the mouse nervous system, using a green fluorescent protein-expressing Borna disease virus vectorAndreas Ackermann
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Hermann Herder Strasse 11, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 84:5438-42. 2010b>Borna disease virus (BDV) frequently persists in the brain of infected animals. To analyze viral dissemination in the mouse nervous system, we generated a mouse-adapted virus that expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP)...
Protein X of Borna disease virus inhibits apoptosis and promotes viral persistence in the central nervous systems of newborn-infected ratsMarion Poenisch
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 83:4297-307. 2009b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic member of the order Mononegavirales with noncytolytic replication and obligatory persistence in cultured cells and animals...
Distribution of Borna disease virus antigen and RNA in tissues of naturally infected bicolored white-toothed shrews, Crocidura leucodon, supporting their role as reservoir host speciesM E Puorger
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Vet Pathol 47:236-44. 2010b>Borna disease is a severe viral-induced disorder of the central nervous system of horses, sheep, and a few other animal species, occurring in certain areas of central Europe...
Borna disease virus and mental health: a cross-sectional studyD Rh Thomas
NPHS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Abton House, Wedal Road, Cardiff CF14 3QX, UK
QJM 98:247-54. 2005b>Borna disease is an infectious neurological disease of horses, sheep and possibly other animals...
Anti-Borna disease virus antibody responses in psychiatric patients: long-term follow upAlexander Heinrich
Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Henriettenstiftung Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 64:255-61. 2010Data suggesting a pathogenetic role for Borna disease virus (BDV) in neuropsychiatric diseases are still inconclusive and it is unknown whether humans become persistently infected or clear the virus infection...
Detection of Borna disease virus in a pregnant mare and her fetusK Hagiwara
School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan
Vet Microbiol 72:207-16. 2000..mare showing pyrexia, reduced appetite, ataxia and paresis was euthanized and examined for the presence of Borna disease virus (BDV)...
High-dose Borna disease virus infection induces a nucleoprotein-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response and prevention of immunopathologyE Furrer
, , , Germany
J Virol 75:11700-8. 2001Experimental Borna disease virus (BDV) infection of rats and natural infection of horses and sheep leads to severe central nervous system disease based on immunopathological pathways...
Borna disease in a free-ranging lynx (Lynx lynx)M P Degiorgis
Department of Wildlife, National Veterinary Institute, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
J Clin Microbiol 38:3087-91. 2000..In situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, and reverse transcriptase PCR analysis showed the presence of Borna disease virus infection in the brain...
No evidence of endemic Borna disease virus infection in Australian horses in contrast with endemic infection in other continentsS Kamhieh
Northern Blood Research Centre, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia
Arch Virol 151:709-19. 2006b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a unique RNA virus that is a cause of neurological disease in horses, sheep and cats. The finding that BDV also infects humans has raised concern related to the impact of infection with this virus...
The immunopathogenesis of Borna disease virus infectionLothar Stitz
Institute for Immunology, Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals, Paul Ehrlich Strasse 28, D 72076 Tubingen, FRG
Front Biosci 7:d541-55. 2002b>Borna disease virus (BDV) infection represents an excellent model system to study immunopathological mechanisms based on a T cell-mediated immune reaction in the central nervous system...
Selective virus resistance conferred by expression of Borna disease virus nucleocapsid componentsTill Geib
Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 77:4283-90. 2003..We present evidence for superinfection exclusion in brains of Borna disease virus (BDV)-infected rats and in persistently infected Vero cells, and we suggest that acquired resistance to ..
Borna disease virus infection impairs synaptic plasticityRomain Volmer
INSERM U563, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan, 31024 Toulouse Cedex 3, France
J Virol 81:8833-7. 2007The mechanisms whereby Borna disease virus (BDV) can impair neuronal function and lead to neurobehavioral disease are not well understood...
Endoplasmic reticulum stress and neurodegeneration in rats neonatally infected with borna disease virusB L Williams
Jerome L and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Virol 80:8613-26. 2006b>Borna disease virus infection of neonatal rats results in a characteristic behavioral syndrome and apoptosis of subsets of neurons in the hippocampus and cerebellum (neonatal Borna disease [NBD])...
Spatiotemporal analysis of purkinje cell degeneration relative to parasagittal expression domains in a model of neonatal viral infectionBrent L Williams
Jerome L and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, Rm 1801, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Virol 81:2675-87. 2007Infection of newborn Lewis rats with Borna disease virus (neonatal Borna disease [NBD]) results in cerebellar damage without the cellular inflammation associated with infections in later life...
Susceptibility of Borna disease virus to the antiviral action of gamma-interferon: evidence for species-specific differencesC Sauder
Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Medical School, Freiburg, Germany
Arch Virol 149:2171-86. 2004b>Borna disease virus (BDV) infection in its predominant natural host - horses and sheep - leads to fatal meningoencephalomyelitis...
Borna disease virus infection of the neonatal rat: developmental brain injury model of autism spectrum disordersMikhail V Pletnikov
Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ross 618, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Front Biosci 7:d593-607. 2002..The present review provides a detailed analysis of a new animal model of ASD. This model utilizes neonatal Borna disease virus (BDV) infection of the rat brain as a unique experimental teratogen to study the pathogenesis of ..
Developmental alterations in serotoninergic neurotransmission in Borna disease virus (BDV)-infected rats: a multidisciplinary analysisDavid Dietz
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Neurovirol 10:267-77. 2004Neonatal Borna disease virus (BDV) infection of the rat brain serves as a valuable model for studying the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental abnormalities following early brain injury...
Constitutive activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB results in impaired borna disease virus replicationSoizic Bourteele
, Friedrich Loeffler Institut, , Paul Ehrlich Str. 28, , Germany
J Virol 79:6043-51. 2005..b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic negative-strand RNA virus, which replicates in the nucleus of the infected cell ..
Exploring the cerebellum with a new tool: neonatal Borna disease virus (BDV) infection of the rat's brainMikhail V Pletnikov
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Cerebellum 2:62-70. 2003..One of the most interesting in vivo models of virus-induced cerebellar damage is the neonatal Borna disease virus (BDV) infection of the rat brain...
Reverse transcription real-time PCR assays for detection and quantification of Borna disease virus in diseased hostsA R Schindler
Institute of Veterinary Pathology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 266a, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Mol Cell Probes 21:47-55. 2007b>Borna disease is a severe, immunopathological disorder of the central nervous system caused by the infection with the Borna disease virus (BDV)...
Glial expression of Borna disease virus phosphoprotein induces behavioral and neurological abnormalities in transgenic miceWataru Kamitani
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:8969-74. 2003..Here, we show that transgenic mice expressing the phosphoprotein (P) of Borna disease virus (BDV) in glial cells develop behavioral abnormalities, such as enhanced intermale aggressiveness, ..
Bornavirus and the brainJuan Carlos de la Torre
Department of Neuropharmacology, Division of Virology, IMM 6, Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Infect Dis 186:S241-7. 2002b>Borna disease virus (BDV) causes central nervous system (CNS) disease that is frequently manifested by behavioral abnormalities. BDV is a nonsegmented, negative, single-stranded RNA virus...
Viral targeting of the interferon-{beta}-inducing Traf family member-associated NF-{kappa}B activator (TANK)-binding kinase-1Gunhild Unterstab
Robert Koch Institute, FG12, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13640-5. 2005..b>Borna disease virus (BDV) establishes persistent noncytolytic infections in animals and tissue culture cells, indicating ..
Shrews as reservoir hosts of borna disease virusMonika Hilbe
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Emerg Infect Dis 12:675-7. 2006b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is the causative agent of severe T-cell-mediated meningoencephalitis in horses, sheep, and other animal species in central Europe...
High-avidity human serum antibodies recognizing linear epitopes of Borna disease virus proteinsChristian Billich
Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 51:979-87. 2002BACKGROUND: The recent observation that Borna disease virus (BDV)-reactive antibodies from psychiatric patients exhibit only low avidity for BDV antigen called into question their diagnostic value and raised the possibility that ..
Chemokine gene expression in astrocytes of Borna disease virus-infected rats and mice in the absence of inflammationC Sauder
Abteilung Virologie, Institut fur Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universitat Freiburg, D 79104 Freiburg
J Virol 74:9267-80. 2000b>Borna disease virus (BDV) causes CD8(+) T-cell-mediated meningoencephalitis in immunocompetent mice and rats, thus providing a valuable animal model for studying the mechanisms of virus-induced central nervous system (CNS) ..
RNA from Borna disease virus in patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective patients, and in their biological relativesSandra Odebrechet Vargas Nunes
Department of Psychiatry, State University of Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
J Clin Lab Anal 22:314-20. 2008..Detection of p24 RNA from Borna disease virus (BDV) by the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction in patients with schizophrenia, ..
Viral accessory protein X stimulates the assembly of functional Borna disease virus polymerase complexesMarion Poenisch
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Gen Virol 89:1442-5. 2008The Borna disease virus (BDV) proteins X and P are translated from a bicistronic viral mRNA...
Persistent Borna Disease Virus (BDV) infection activates microglia prior to a detectable loss of granule cells in the hippocampusMikhail V Ovanesov
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Neuroinflammation 5:16. 2008Neonatal Borna Disease Virus (BDV) infection in rats leads to a neuronal loss in the cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum...
A functional role for neutralizing antibodies in Borna disease: influence on virus tropism outside the central nervous systemL Stitz
Institut für Impfstoffe, Bundesforschungsanstalt fur Viruskrankheiten der Tiere, Tubingen, Germany
J Virol 72:8884-92. 1998b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a negative-strand RNA virus that infects the central nervous systems (CNS) of warm-blooded animals and causes disturbances of movement and behavior...
Pathogenesis of Borna disease in rats: evidence that intra-axonal spread is the major route for virus dissemination and the determinant for disease incubationK M Carbone
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
J Virol 61:3431-40. 1987b>Borna disease virus is an uncharacterized agent that causes sporadic but fatal neurological disease in horses and sheep in Europe...
Cell entry of Borna disease virus follows a clathrin-mediated endocytosis pathway that requires Rab5 and microtubulesRoberto Clemente
Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
J Virol 83:10406-16. 2009b>Borna disease virus (BDV), the prototypic member of the Bornaviridae family within the order Mononegavirales, exhibits high neurotropism and provides an important and unique experimental model system for studying virus-cell interactions ..
Persistent Borna disease virus infection of neonatal rats causes brain regional changes of mRNAs for cytokines, cytokine receptor components and neuropeptidesC R Plata-Salaman
Division of Molecular Biology, School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Brain Res Bull 49:441-51. 1999b>Borna disease virus (BDV) replicates in brain cells. The neonatally infected rat with BDV exhibits developmental-neuromorphological abnormalities, neuronal cytolysis, and multiple behavioral and physiological alterations...
Effects of neonatal rat Borna disease virus (BDV) infection on the postnatal development of the brain monoaminergic systemsM V Pletnikov
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ross 618, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Brain Res Dev Brain Res 119:179-85. 2000Effects of neonatal Borna disease virus infection (BDV) on the postnatal development of brain monoaminergic systems in rats were studied...
Synaptic pathology in Borna disease virus persistent infectionD Gonzalez-Dunia
Unite des Virus Lents, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Virol 74:3441-8. 2000b>Borna disease virus (BDV) infection of newborn rats leads to a persistent infection of the brain, which is associated with behavioral and neuroanatonomical abnormalities...
Borna disease virus--does it infect humans and cause psychiatric disorders?K Lieb
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Hermann Herder Strasse 11, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Clin Virol 21:119-27. 2001Antibodies recognizing Borna disease virus (BDV) antigens were first demonstrated in the blood of psychiatric patients approximately 15 years ago...
Borna disease virus infection of adult and neonatal rats: models for neuropsychiatric diseaseM Hornig
Laboratory for the Study of Emerging Diseases, 3101 Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4292, USA
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 253:157-77. 2001..Two models have been established based on Borna disease virus infection that provide new insights into mechanisms by which neurotropic agents and/or immune factors ..
Upregulation of chemokine receptor gene expression in brains of Borna disease virus (BDV)-infected rats in the absence and presence of inflammationMathias Rauer
Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Germany
J Neurovirol 8:168-79. 2002Infection of adult rats with Borna disease virus (BDV) causes CD8 T cell-mediated meningoencephalitis. Previously, we described a complex pattern of chemokine gene expression in the central nervous system (CNS) of such rats...
Conservation of coding potential and terminal sequences in four different isolates of Borna disease virusS Pleschka
Institute of Virology, University of Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
J Gen Virol 82:2681-90. 2001We determined the complete nucleotide sequences of two poorly characterized strains of Borna disease virus (BDV) and compared them to reference strains V and He/80...
Sero-epidemiological study of Borna disease virus infection in the Italian equine populationG Pisoni
Department of Veterinary Pathology, Hygiene and Public Health, Institute of Infectious Diseases, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Vet Res Commun 31:245-8. 2007
Borna disease virus circulating immunocomplex positivity and psychopathology in psychiatric patients in the Czech RepublicSylva Rackova
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Medical Faculty, Charles University in Pilsen, Alej Svobody 80, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Neuro Endocrinol Lett 30:414-20. 2009b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is an RNA virus belonging to the family Bornaviridae. BDV is a neurotropic virus that causes changes in mood, behaviour and cognition...
The nucleolus is the site of Borna disease virus RNA transcription and replicationJ M Pyper
Division of Comparative Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Virol 72:7697-702. 1998b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus with limited homology to rhabdoviruses and paramyxoviruses. A distinguishing feature of BDV is that it replicates in the nucleus of infected cells...
Electrophysiological alterations and upregulation of ATP receptors in retinal glial Müller cells from rats infected with the Borna disease virusT Pannicke
Paul Flechsig Institut für Hirnforschung, Universitat Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Glia 35:213-23. 2001Infection with the neurotropic Borna disease virus (BDV) causes an immune-mediated neurological disease in a broad range of species...
Infection of the enteric nervous system by Borna disease virus (BDV) upregulates expression of Calbindin D-28kHelga Pfannkuche
Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, An den Tierkliniken 7, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Vet Microbiol 127:275-85. 2008b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic agent infecting distinct neuronal subpopulations in the central nervous system of various mammalian species possibly including humans...
Borna disease virus-specific circulating immune complexes, antigenemia, and free antibodies--the key marker triplet determining infection and prevailing in severe mood disordersL Bode
Project Bornavirus Infections, Robert Koch Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany
Mol Psychiatry 6:481-91. 2001b>Borna disease virus (BDV), a unique genetically highly conserved RNA virus (Bornaviridae; Mononegavirales), preferentially targets neurons of limbic structures causing behavioral abnormalities in animals...
Downregulation of an astrocyte-derived inflammatory protein, S100B, reduces vascular inflammatory responses in brains persistently infected with Borna disease virusNaohiro Ohtaki
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3 1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565 0871, Japan
J Virol 81:5940-8. 2007b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic virus that causes a persistent infection in the central nervous system (CNS) of many vertebrate species...
Vaccine-induced protection against Borna disease in wild-type and perforin-deficient miceJürgen Hausmann
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Gen Virol 86:399-403. 2005b>Borna disease virus (BDV) can persistently infect the central nervous system and induce CD8+ T-cell-mediated neurological disease in MRL mice...
Prevention of virus persistence and protection against immunopathology after Borna disease virus infection of the brain by a novel Orf virus recombinantMarco Henkel
Institute of Immunology, Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Tuebingen, Germany
J Virol 79:314-25. 2005..Orf virus strain D1701 was used to generate a recombinant virus (D1701-VrVp40) expressing nucleoprotein p40 of Borna disease virus, which represents a major antigen for the induction of a Borna disease virus-specific humoral and ..
Borna disease virus replication in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures from rats results in selective damage of dentate granule cellsDaniel Mayer
Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 11, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 79:11716-23. 2005In the hippocampus of Borna disease virus (BDV)-infected newborn rats, dentate granule cells undergo progressive cell death...
Expression of allograft inflammatory factor-1 and haeme oxygenase-1 in brains of rats infected with the neurotropic Borna disease virusC Herden
Institut fur Pathologie, Tierarztliche Hochschule Hannover, Bunteweg 17, D 30559 Hannover, Germany
Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 31:512-21. 2005Experimental infection of Lewis rats with Borna disease virus (BDV) causes an immune-mediated nonpurulent meningoencephalitis...
Characterization of a Borna disease virus field isolate which shows efficient viral propagation and transmissibilityYohei Watanabe
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases BIKEN, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565 0871, Japan
Microbes Infect 9:417-27. 2007To investigate the biological characteristics of field isolates of Borna disease virus (BDV), as well as to understand BDV infections outside endemic countries, we isolated the virus from brain samples of a heifer with Borna disease in ..
Adaptation of Borna disease virus to new host species attributed to altered regulation of viral polymerase activityAndreas Ackermann
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Hermann Herder Strasse 11, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 81:7933-40. 2007b>Borna disease virus (BDV) can persistently infect the central nervous system of a broad range of mammalian species...
PrPSc level and incubation time in a transgenic mouse model expressing Borna disease virus phosphoprotein after intracerebral prion infectionAkikazu Sakudo
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3 1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565 0871, Japan
Neurosci Lett 431:81-5. 2008Our previous studies have shown that the persistent expression of Borna disease virus phosphoprotein (BDV P) in mice leads to behavioral abnormalities resembling those in BDV-infected animals...
Implications for a regulated replication of Borna disease virus in brains of experimentally infected Lewis ratsDoris Porombka
Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Bunteweg 17, 30559 Hannover, Germany
Virus Genes 36:415-20. 2008The neurotropic Borna disease virus (BDV) causes typically a persistent virus infection of the central nervous system...
Abnormal social behaviors in young and adult rats neonatally infected with Borna disease virusKaren Lancaster
Division of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Behav Brain Res 176:141-8. 2007..In this report, we briefly review our animal model of ASD based on neonatal Borna disease virus (BDV) infection and present new data about abnormal social interaction in adult BDV-infected rats...
Layer specific changes of astroglial gap junctions in the rat cerebellar cortex by persistent Borna Disease Virus infectionChristiane Köster-Patzlaff
Center for Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, University of Gottingen, Kreuzbergring 36, 37075 Gottingen, Germany
Brain Res 1219:143-58. 2008Neonatal Borna Disease Virus (BDV) infection of the Lewis rat brain, leads to Purkinje cell degeneration, in association with astroglial activation...
Metallothioneins and zinc dysregulation contribute to neurodevelopmental damage in a model of perinatal viral infectionBrent L Williams
Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Brain Pathol 16:1-14. 2006Neonatal Borna disease (NBD) virus infection in the Lewis rat results in life-long viral persistence and causes behavioral and neurodevelopmental abnormalities...
Cannabinoid rescue of striatal progenitor cells in chronic Borna disease viral encephalitis in ratsMarylou V Solbrig
Department of Neurology, University of California Irivne, Irvine, California 92697 4292, USA
J Neurovirol 14:252-60. 2008..b>Borna disease virus (BDV) in rats causes cortical and subcortical infection with extrapyramidal motor symptoms, and ..
Detection of Borna disease virus p24 RNA in peripheral blood cells from Brazilian mood and psychotic disorder patientsHelen Cristina Miranda
Department of Pathological Sciences-Immunology, Londrina State University, Londrina, PR, Brazil
J Affect Disord 90:43-7. 2006BACKGROUND: Borna disease virus (BDV) is a virus that naturally infects a broad range of warm-blooded animals...
Detection by radioligand assay of antibodies against Borna disease virus in patients with various psychiatric disordersHidenori Matsunaga
Department of Psychiatry, Osaka General Medical Center, Bandai higashi 3 1 56, Sumiyoshi ku, Osaka 558 8558, Japan
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 12:671-6. 2005Using a radioligand assay, which preserves the natural form of the antigen, antibodies against Borna disease virus nucleoprotein and phosphoprotein were detected in 11 and 19 sera of 171 psychiatric patients, respectively...
Neurological disorder after Borna disease virus infection in the absence of either interferon-gamma, Fas, inducible NO synthase, or chemokine receptor CXCR3Jürgen Hausmann
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Viral Immunol 17:79-85. 2004b>Borna disease virus (BDV) can induce severe neurological disorder in Lewis rats and MRL mice. Antiviral CD8 T cells have been shown to be the mediators of disease in these animals...
[Borna disease virus infection]Wataru Kamitani
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
Nippon Rinsho 61:128-34. 2003
Genetic relationship of Borna disease virus isolatesOliver Planz
Institut fur Immunologie, Bundesforschungsanstalt fur Viruskrankheiten der Tiere, Tubingen
Virus Genes 26:25-30. 2003..We also present data that BDV-specific nucleic acid detected in blood of the donor of the presumed RW98 isolate and one other patient differs from all known BDV-p24 sequences, arguing for the existence of BDV sequences in man...
Characterization of the acute immune response in the retina of Borna disease virus infected Lewis ratsTobias Stahl
Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken 43 D 04109 Leipzig, Germany
J Neuroimmunol 137:67-78. 2003In Lewis rats infected intracerebrally with the highly neurotropic Borna disease virus (BDV), the retina is one of the most severely affected central nervous system (CNS) structures...
Identification of differentially expressed genes in brains of newborn Borna disease virus-infected rats in the absence of inflammationC Jehle
Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Arch Virol 148:45-63. 2003Infection of newborn rats with Borna disease virus (BDV) leads to viral persistence in the central nervous system without overt signs of inflammation...
Key role for enkephalinergic tone in cortico-striatal-thalamic functionMarylou V Solbrig
Department of Neurology, Gillespie Neuroscience Bldg, Rm 3107, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 4292, USA
Eur J Neurosci 16:1819-22. 2002..We show that Borna disease virus infection of adult rats results in an increase in preproenkephalin transcripts in the striatum of Borna-..
Nosological study of Borna disease virus infection in race horsesKatsuro Hagiwara
Department of Veterinary Microbiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido 069 8501, Japan
Vet Microbiol 84:367-74. 2002To investigate the prevalence of diseases in the Borna disease virus (BDV) antibody positive race horses, we undertook seroepidemiological studies of BDV infection on 125 culled race horses in Hokkaido, Japan...
Immunological and PCR analyses for Borna disease virus in psychiatric patients and blood donors in JapanK Fukuda
Department of Microbiology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima-shi, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
J Clin Microbiol 39:419-29. 2001The involvement of Borna disease virus (BDV) in psychiatric diseases in humans remains controversial...
Prevalence of circulating antibodies to p10, a non-structural protein of the Borna disease virus in cats with ataxiaA Ouchi
Tsukuba Central Laboratories, Kyoritsu Seiyaku Corporation, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki, Japan
J Vet Med Sci 63:1279-85. 2001Japanese domestic cats were surveyed for circulating antibodies to the plO and p24 proteins of the Borna disease virus (BDV) by Western blotting. Twenty-four of 52 cats (46...
Molecular biology of Borna disease virus and persistenceJuan Carlos de la Torre
Department of Neuropharmacology, Division of Virology, IMM-6, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Front Biosci 7:d569-79. 2002b>Borna disease virus (BDV) causes central nervous system (CNS) disease that is frequently manifested by behavioral abnormalities...
1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine inhibits borna disease virus replication and spreadJeffrey J Bajramovic
, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Virol 76:6268-76. 2002b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a nonsegmented, negative-strand RNA virus that causes neurological diseases in a variety of warm-blooded animal species. There is general consensus that BDV can also infect humans, being a possible zoonosis...
Enhanced neurovirulence of borna disease virus variants associated with nucleotide changes in the glycoprotein and L polymerase genesYoshii Nishino
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Virol 76:8650-8. 2002b>Borna disease virus (BDV) infection produces a variety of clinical diseases, from behavioral illnesses to classical fatal encephalitis (i.e., Borna disease [BD])...
Virus-specific CD4+ T cells eliminate borna disease virus from the brain via induction of cytotoxic CD8+ T cellsK Nöske
Institut fur Virologie, Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen, Tubingen, Germany
J Virol 72:4387-95. 1998Persistent Borna disease virus infection of the brain can be prevented by treatment of naive rats with a virus-specific CD4+ T-cell line prior to infection...
Borna disease in a dog in JapanM Okamoto
Department of Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, 582 Bunkyodai-Midorimachi, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, 069-8501, Japan
J Comp Pathol 126:312-7. 2002b>Borna disease (BD) was diagnosed in a 3-year-old male Welsh corgi suffering from a severe and acute progressive disorder of the central nervous system...
Borna disease virusI Jordan
Emerging Diseases Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University of California-- Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4292, USA
Rev Med Virol 11:37-57. 2001b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is unique amongst animal RNA viruses in its molecular biology and capacity to cause persistent, noncytolytic CNS-infection in a wide variety of host species...
Two major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted epitopes of the Borna disease virus p10 protein identified by cytotoxic T lymphocytes induced by DNA-based immunizationYoshio Hashimoto
Department of Bioscience, Salem International University, Salem, West Virginia 26426-0500, USA
J Virol 77:6076-81. 2003b>Borna disease virus (BDV) infection of Lewis rats is the most studied animal model of Borna disease, an often fatal encephalomyelitis...
Neuroprotection and reduced proliferation of microglia in ribavirin-treated bornavirus-infected ratsMarylou V Solbrig
Emerging Diseases Laboratory, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 46:2287-91. 2002In a rat model of Borna disease, intracerebral ribavirin caused clinical improvement without changes in virus titer or nucleic acid...
Age- and host-dependent control of Borna disease virus spread in the developing brains of gerbils and ratsByeong-Jae Lee
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
Microbes Infect 5:1195-204. 2003b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a non-cytolytic, neurotropic RNA virus that has a broad host range in warm-blooded animals, probably including humans...
Precursors of Borna disease virus-specific T cells in secondary lymphatic tissue of experimentally infected ratsArvind Batra
Institute for Immunology, Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals, , Federal Republic of Germany
J Neurovirol 9:325-35. 2003b>Borna disease in rats represents an experimental model to study the immunopathological role of T cells in central nervous system disease...
Neutralizing antibodies in persistent borna disease virus infection: prophylactic effect of gp94-specific monoclonal antibodies in preventing encephalitisE Furrer
, , , Germany
J Virol 75:943-51. 2001b>Borna disease virus (BDV) infection triggers an immune-mediated encephalomyelitis and results in a persistent infection...
Borna disease virus induces acute fatal neurological disorders in neonatal gerbils without virus- and immune-mediated cell destructionsMakiko Watanabe
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Virology 310:245-53. 2003b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a noncytolytic, neurotropic RNA virus that is known to cause neurological disturbances in various animal species...
Experimental vertical transmission of Borna disease virus in the mouseM Okamoto
Department of Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
Arch Virol 148:1557-68. 2003We demonstrated the experimental vertical transmission of Borna disease virus (BDV) in pregnant BALB/c mice. Giessen strain He/80 of BDV was used in the present study...
Alpha/beta interferon promotes transcription and inhibits replication of borna disease virus in persistently infected cellsP Staeheli
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 75:8216-23. 2001b>Borna disease virus (BDV) is a noncytolytic RNA virus that can replicate in the central nervous system (CNS) of mice...
[The mechanism of persistent infection and pathogenesis of Borna disease virus]Keizo Tomonaga
Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871
Uirusu 53:103-12. 2003
Research Grants
- MECHANISMS OF NEUROPATHOGENESIS IN BORNA DISEASEMady Hornig; Fiscal Year: 2002DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): Borna disease virus (BDV) is a newly classified RNA virus that infects the CNS of warm blooded animals to cause disturbances of movement and behavior...
- COMPUTER BASED SEQUENCE ANALYSIS AND RNA VIRUS EVOLUTIONMARCELLA MCCLURE; Fiscal Year: 2000..of all proteins of paramyxo-, rhabdo- and filoviruses, (with privileged access to new Ebola sequences), and Borna Disease virus, (including potential BDV sequences from schizophrenic patients); and 3) the analysis of the dUTPase ..
- MOLECULAR ANALYIS OF A NEUROTROPIC AGENT, BORNA VIRUSWALTER LIPKIN; Fiscal Year: 1993b>Borna disease (BD) is an infectious neurologic disease characterized by profound behavioral disturbances and the accumulation of specific antigens in limbic system neurons...
- BORNA VIRUS ALTERS PERINATAL BEHAVIOR DEVELOPMENTTimothy Moran; Fiscal Year: 2002..Studies of Borna disease virus (BDV)-infected neonatal Lewis rats have revealed important principles about the neuroanatomical and ..
- Viral neuropathology neuropeptides and epilepsyMarylou Solbrig; Fiscal Year: 2005..The generality of the hypothesis, the mechanism of effect, and treatments will be studied. Borna Disease virus, a neurotropic virus causing hippocampal degeneration in many mamma an species, is a rare cause of ..
- CNS VIRAL INJURY AND VULNERABILITY TO OPIATE DRUG ABUSEMarylou Solbrig; Fiscal Year: 2002..An animal model of a persistent CNS viral infection based on experimental Borna disease virus infection of the rat will be developed then tested for 1) the reinforcing effects of opiates as measured ..
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF BORNA DISEASE VIRUS (BDV)JUAN DE LA TORRE; Fiscal Year: 2000b>Borna disease virus (BDV) provides an important model for the study of both the mechanisms and consequences of viral persistence in the central nervous system (CNS), a subject with important health implications given the evidence that ..
- Immune cell dynamics during central nervous system viral infectionJuan C de la Torre; Fiscal Year: 2010..abstract_text> ..
- Anti-interferon Activity of the Arenavirus NucleoproteinLuis Martinez Sobrido; Fiscal Year: 2010..This knowledge should fuel the development of better antiviral strategies to combat human pathogenic arenaviruses. ..
- Viral Arrays for BiodefenseW Ian Lipkin; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- A Staged Strategy for Virus Identification and DiscoveryWALTER LIPKIN; Fiscal Year: 2004..Consistent with aims proposed in AI51292, our initial clinical application will be to analyze enteroviral serotypes implicated in human disease in North America. ..
