Viral neuropathogenesis I.

The article presents several papers on viral neuropathogenesis that were presented at the Sixth International Symposium on NeuroVirology. Viral infections have been implicated in functional disturbances of the nervous system. These may be related to targeting of viruses to certain brain areas, and to the effects of viral components and/or host derived immune response molecules on neuronal functions. For targeting to distinct regions of the brain, viral components utilize the axonal and dendritic transport machineries of a neuron and the site of a virus attack is then partly related to its portal of entry.