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#How rabies hijacks neurons to attack brain Rabies causes acute inflammation of the brain, producing psychosis and violent aggression.
Some 55,000 people die from rabies every year. For the first time, Tel aviv University scientists have discovered the exact mechanism this killer virus uses to efficiently enter the central nervous system,
"Rabies not only hijacks the nervous system's machinery, it also manipulates that machinery to move faster,
"We have shown that rabies enters a neuron in the peripheral nervous system by binding to a nerve growth factor receptor, responsible for the health of neurons, called p75.
"Understanding how an organism such as rabies manipulates this machinery may help us in the future to either restore the process
the researchers hope their findings will allow scientists to control the neuronal transport machinery to treat rabies and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Similar to the approaches used to develop vaccines for polio, influenza, rabies and Hepatitis a, the vaccine is the first based on a genetically modified,
the rabies protein will look the same, the other L proteins will look the same,
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