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ArticleBMC neuroscience2010

An adeno-associated viral vector transduces the rat hypothalamus and amygdala more efficient than a lentiviral vector.

Marijke W A de Backer, Carlos P Fitzsimons, Maike A D Brans, Mieneke C M Luijendijk, Keith M Garner, Erno Vreugdenhil, Roger A H Adan

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Article in BMC neuroscience, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marijke W A de BackerDepartment of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Carlos P Fitzsimons
Maike A D Brans
Mieneke C M Luijendijk
Keith M Garner
Erno Vreugdenhil
Roger A H Adan
University Medical Center Utrecht · NLLeiden University Medical Center · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis study compared the transduction efficiencies of an adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector, which was pseudotyped with an AAV1 capsid and encoded the green fluorescent protein (GFP), with a lentiviral (LV) vector, which was pseudotyped with a VSV-G envelop and encoded the discosoma red fluorescent protein (dsRed), to investigate which viral vector transduced the lateral hypothalamus or the amygdala more efficiently. The LV-dsRed and AAV1-GFP vector were mixed and injected into the lateral hypothalamus or into the amygdala of adult rats. The titers that were injected were 1 x 108 or 1 x 109 genomic copies of AAV1-GFP and 1 x 105 transducing units of LV-dsRed.

resultsImmunostaining for GFP and dsRed showed that AAV1-GFP transduced significantly more cells than LV-dsRed in both the lateral hypothalamus and the amygdala. In addition, the number of LV particles that were injected can not easily be increased, while the number of AAV1 particles can be increased easily with a factor 100 to 1000. Both viral vectors appear to predominantly transduce neurons.

conclusionsThis study showed that AAV1 vectors are better tools to overexpress or knockdown genes in the lateral hypothalamus and amygdala of adult rats, since more cells can be transduced with AAV1 than with LV vectors and the titer of AAV1 vectors can easily be increased to transduce the area of interest.

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AmygdalaAnimalsCell LineCells, CulturedDependovirusGenetic VectorsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHumansHypothalamusImmunohistochemistryLentivirusMaleNeuronsRatsRats, WistarTransduction, GeneticGreen Fluorescent Proteins

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PMID20626877
PMCPMC2912914
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