Japanese encephalitis virus causes 'double trouble' to brain

(Wiley-Blackwell) Recent research at the National Brain Research Center, India, published in Journal of Neurochemistry, has shown that Japanese encephalitis virus, commonly known as brain fever, damages the brain in two ways -- not only killing brain cells but also preventing the birth of new cells from neural stem/progenitor cells and depleting the NPC pool in the brain.


 

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