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- From: linda@frcs.Alt.ZA (Linda Jacobson)
- Subject: Re: What homing device does a virus use?
- Organization: Onderstepoort School of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:46:25 GMT
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- Thus spake turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin):
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- > 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?
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- Herpes viruses grow better at lower temperatures, so do quite well on
- mucous membranes "outside" or "on the edges of" the body. So I'm told.
- (They never stopped to explain how they cope with ganglia.)
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- Linda
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- PS I thought Gordon's explanation was inspired. This issue has
- bothered me from time to time and that idea made a lot of sense.
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- Linda Jacobson 'That's fine, boy, never mind
- Department of Medicine the tulips.'
- Faculty of Vet Science
- Onderstepoort, South Africa (Hunter S. Thompson)
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