They found that a specific portion of the brain called the cerebral cortex - which produces learning and memory - was significantly smaller in the mice when infected with Zika virus. RELATED Brazil says Zika emergency is over Smith's team recently infected mice with Zika virus in order to learn the effects it has on the mouse brain.
"We may not get all the answers we're hoping for, but hopefully we will be able to provide some sort of answer," he added. "What we are trying to do is try to sort of provide the rationale behind why the people who were infected with the virus, who were probably exposed to it through mosquito bites at a very young age, were getting the birth defect," Smith said. Smith said they are doing the research to help explain how many of the children with microcephaly in Rio de Janeiro - where the Brazilian government launched an emergency campaign to protect against the Zika virus - could have been sickened by that virus.
James Smith, associate professor of neurobiology at Alabama State University, said researchers in his lab have used a new virus-immunization strategy to make antibodies that neutralize a portion of the Zika virus.ĭr. It is thought the Zika virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, the yellow fever virus and a parasite known as the Plasmodium parasite, may have been responsible.ĭr. The CDC said the virus could cause a severe birth defect known as microcephaly when a fetus is born with abnormally small head size.
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