Name: Video: Zika Virus Infection of Fetal Neural Stem Cells - Concept
Uploaded: 2025-03-31T15:00:44.000+00:00
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Description: 18 Views. Source: McGrath, E. L., et al., Zika Virus Infection of Cultured Human Fetal Brain Neural Stem Cells for Immunocytochemical Analysis. J. Vis. Exp. (2018) This video demonstrates a procedure to infect human fetal neural stem cells with Zika virus. The infected cells can be used for further studies.

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1. Zika Virus Infection
NOTE: ZIKV is highly sensitive to temperature, so it is imperative that ZIKV stock are stored at -80 &#176;C and freeze/thawing cycles are avoided. Keep working aliquots on ice.
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	<li>Passage cells. 3-4 million cells in total are needed to seed a 24-well plate, therefore when passaging, put the number of cells needed for infection and seeding in a flask when passaging.</li>
	<li>If seeding cells into a 24-well plate for staining, prepare the plate [Coat the wells containing cover slips with 0.01% poly-D-lysine (PDL) in sterile water and incubate for 1 h at 37 &#730;C. For a 24-well plate, use 250 &#956;L of PDL per well].</li>
	<li>After passaging, place 1 mL of cell suspension into a 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube, and centrifuge at 200 x g at room temperature for 5 min. Then remove the supernatant by aspiration.</li>
	<li>Resuspend cell pellet in ZIKV stock to acquire a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of either 1 to 10. The volume of ZIKV solution should not exceed 0.5 mL. For mock treatment (control cells), resuspend cells in the same volume and type of medium used in ZIKV stock.</li>
	<li>Incubate above cell/ZIKV mixture at 37 &#176;C for 1 h. Invert the tube 2-3 times, and then centrifuge mixture for 5 min at 216 x g at room temperature to obtain a cell pellet. Resuspend pellet in dPBS and centrifuge again for 5 min at 216 x g at room temperature.</li>
	<li>Remove the supernatant by aspiration, resuspend cells with appropriate medium, and load infected cells into flask or plate needed for the experiment. If seeding the cells into a 24-well plate resuspend the pellet in 12 mL of appropriate medium, and then add 500 &#956;L of suspension to each well. 
	NOTE: At this point either maintain the cells in growth media to observe effects of ZIKV on stem cells, or go to steps 6 or 7 to study the effect of ZIKV on the differentiation process.</li>
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zika virus infection of fetal neural stem cells

Source: McGrath, E. L., et al., <a href="https://app.jove.com/v/56917">Zika Virus Infection of Cultured Human Fetal Brain Neural Stem Cells for Immunocytochemical Analysis.</a> J. Vis. Exp. (2018)
This video demonstrates a procedure to infect human fetal neural stem cells with Zika virus. The infected cells can be used for further studies.

Zika Virus Infection of Fetal Neural Stem Cells

Source: McGrath, E. L., et al., Zika Virus Infection of Cultured Human Fetal Brain Neural Stem Cells for Immunocytochemical Analysis. J. Vis. Exp. (2018)
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Take a suspension of the Zika virus, a pathogenic virus, having the desired multiplicity of infection, the ratio of virus particles to cells.
Mix the virus suspension with human fetal brain neural stem cells.
Incubate the mixture, allowing the virus to bind to receptors on the cells, facilitating viral endocytosis.
Next, centrifuge the mixture and discard the supernatant containing non-internalized viral particles.
Resuspend the virus-infected cells in media and seed them into an extracellular matrix protein-coated multi-well plate, allowing cell adhesion.
Incubate the plate.
The internalized Zika virus utilizes the host cell machinery to produce new viral particles.
Viral replication significantly alters cell morphology, causing cellular damage and facilitating the spread of infection to neighboring cells.
The Zika virus-infected cells can be used for further analysis.

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18 Views. Source: McGrath, E. L., et al., Zika Virus Infection of Cultured Human Fetal Brain Neural Stem Cells for Immunocytochemical Analysis. J. Vis. Exp. (2018) This video demonstrates a procedure to infect human fetal neural stem cells with Zika virus. The infected cells can be used for further studies. 

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Zika Virus Infection of Fetal Neural Stem Cells

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Zika Virus Infection of Fetal Neural Stem Cells

Zika Virus Infectious Cell Culture System and the In Vitro Prophylactic Effect of Interferons

Modelling Zika Virus Infection of the Developing Human Brain In Vitro Using Stem Cell Derived Cerebral Organoids

Establishing Mouse Models for Zika Virus-induced Neurological Disorders Using Intracerebral Injection Strategies: Embryonic, Neonatal, and Adult