Results: Human Fetal Brain Neural Stem Cell Infection with Zika Virus
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The overall goal of this in vitro procedure is to observe the effect of Zika virus infection on survival in differentiation of human fetal neural stem cells. This method can help answer key questions in the neural stem cell and infectious disease
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This article details the methods that are used to expand human fetal brain neural stem cells in culture, as well as how to differentiate them into various neuronal subtypes and astrocytes, with an emphasis on the use of neural stem cells to study Zika virus infection.