ArticleProtein & cell2013
Role of the blood-brain barrier in rabies virus infection and protection.
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- Biological barriers underlying the extremely high fatality of symptomatic rabies: neuroinvasion, immune evasion, and blood-brain barrier restriction.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Multimodal Imaging Reveals Cerebral Microcirculation Dynamics and Mechanisms in Mouse Central Nervous System After Intranasal Infection With Recombinant Pseudorabies Virus.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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- Lab-Attenuated Rabies Virus Facilitates Opening of the Blood-Brain Barrier by Inducing Matrix Metallopeptidase 8.Journal of virology · 2022Article
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- The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein alters barrier function in 2D static and 3D microfluidic in-vitro models of the human blood-brain barrier.Neurobiology of disease · 2020Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Rabies is an acute, progressive encephalitis caused by infection with rabies virus (RABV). It is one of the most important zoonotic infections and causes more than 70,000 human deaths annually ( http://www.rabiescontrol.net ). It has long been held that a rabies infection is lethal in humans once the causative RABV reaches the central nervous system (CNS); however, this concept was challenged by the recent recovery of a small number of rabies patients. An analysis of these patients revealed that the bloodbrain barrier (BBB) played a major role in protection against the virus. The main reason for the survival of these patients was enhanced BBB permeability after infection with the causative agent (usually bat-originated RABV showing reduced pathogenicity), which allowed immune cells to enter the tissues of the CNS and clear the infection (Willoughby et al., 2005). These findings have been confirmed in animal infection experiments (Wang et al., 2005; Roy and Hooper, 2007, 2008; Faber et al., 2009). Thus, the BBB has attracted the attention of scientists interested in the pathogenesis of, and therapeutic approaches, for rabies. This paper introduces the role of the BBB in rabies infections and protection of the CNS and provides insight into future treatments for patients with clinical rabies.
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