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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: What homing device does a virus use?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 08:40:23 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- References: <17491@pitt.UUCP> <lgihacINN6hm@peaches.cs.utexas.edu> <lgilbnINN61a@news.bbn.com>
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- Summary: So much for cutesy subject lines.
-
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- In article <lgilbnINN61a@news.bbn.com> levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes:
- > Now -- if you are asking why the viruses grow in certain areas and
- > not in others, that is a different question. ...
-
- I thought I had made it pretty plain. Maybe the subject line
- fooled people. (So much for my humor.) I didn't really think
- that viruses carry around a homing device.
-
- But as I wrote originally, they clearly exhibit specificity in
- the tissue they infect, and it was this specificity that puzzled
- me when the tissues concerned seemed identical. Does skin on the
- cheek by the mouth really have different cell receptors than skin
- on the cheek over by the ear? And if not, how does the herpes
- virus "know" to infect one place and not the other?
-
- Russell
-