Oral inoculation with herpes simplex virus type 1 infects enteric neuron and mucosal nerve fibers within the gastrointestinal tract in mice.
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Gesser, R M
RESUMO
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is commonly encountered first during childhood as an oral infection. After this initial infection resolves, the virus remains in a latent form within innervating sensory ganglia for the life of the host. We have previously shown, using a murine model, that HSV-1 placed within the lumen of the esophagus gains access to nerves within the gut wall and establishes a latent infection in sensory ganglia (nodose ganglia) of the tenth cranial nerve (R. M. Gesser, T. Valyi-Nagy, S. M. Altschuler, and N. W. Fraser, J. Gen. Virol. 75:2379-2386, 1994). Peripheral processes of neurons in these ganglia travel through the vagus nerve and function as primary sensory receptors in most of the gastrointestinal tract, relaying information from the gut wall and mucosal surface to secondary neurons within the brain stem. In the work described here, we further examined the spread of HSV-1 through the enteric nervous system after oral inoculation. By immunohistochemistry, HSV-1 was found to infect myenteric ganglia in Auerbach's plexus between the inner and outer muscle layers of the gut wall, submucosal ganglia (Meisner's plexus), and periglandular ganglion plexuses surrounding submucosal glands. Virus-infected nerve fibers were also seen projecting through the mucosal layer to interact directly with surface epithelial cells. These intramucosal nerve fibers may be a conduit by which intraluminal virus is able to gain access to the enteric nervous system from the gastrointestinal lumen.
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