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What does VS stand for?

Vesicular Stomatitis


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Vesaire (Turkish: et cetera)
Veterinary Services (USDA)
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Vide Super (Latin: See Above)
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Profectus), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel vaccine candidates for serious chronic infections, has entered into a research collaboration agreement with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) to conduct proof-of-concept study with its proprietary, recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) vector technology as a preventative malaria vaccine.
It has been shown to actively inhibit the activity of several viruses such as: both herpes viruses, the influenza viruses, polioviruses, and vesicular stomatitis virus.
A very striking phenotype of these mice concerns virus infections, because embryo fibroblasts derived from the 4E-BP1/2 deficient mice were resistant to a wide range of viral infections, including influenza, vesicular stomatitis virus, and Sindbis virus, and mice were resistant to vesicular stomatitis viral infections (Colina et al.
The first nine chapters address vectors used in gene therapy against cancer, including adenoviral, lentiviral, retroviral, asphavirus, vesicular stomatitis virus, parvovirus, and nonviral vectors.
No activity against RNA viruses such as vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), Coxsackie B4 virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), parainfluenza virus-3, reovirus-1, Sindbis virus, and Punta Toro virus, or HIV-1 and HIV-2 in cell cultures was observed (data not shown).
To make the vaccines, the researchers stripped the vesicular stomatitis virus of a particular gene and replaced it either with a gene that encodes a protein on the Marburg virus or with a gene for a protein on the Ebola virus.
shannoni is a vector of vesicular stomatitis virus (Corn et al.
An outbreak of the viral disease vesicular stomatitis, diagnosed on May 19 in three horses at a ranch in the far west of Texas, had threatened Lone Star Park's plans to host this year's Breeders' Cup on October 30.

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