MIMM 465 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sensory Nerve, Trigeminal Nerve, Guanosine
16 Apr 2013
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- dr. briedis. Graph of publications per year of all herpes and herpes simplex viruses. Fewer than 30 publications per year in the 60s and 1000 publications per year in 1975. Laboratory science tend to follow fashion b/c of the funding fashion. In the 60s and 70s, there was a sexual revolution! As a result, sexually transmitted disease called herpes simplex genitalis was developed. Hsv rocketed high, which infects the person for life it was almost conceived as modern day hiv. As a result, ppl started to do research on hsv. Thought of the 60s, was that hsv causes the carcinoma on the cervix however, was simply a correlation of sexual promiscuity, not a causal relationship. In 1981, hiv/aids broke out and completely took over the funding/research. Plasma membrane envelope with glycoproteins in it. Envelope membrane derived from nuclear membrane by budding.
