Has anyone used retro-AAV to retrogradely infect DRG neurons with intraplantar injections?

achamess · September 14, 2017, 11:42pm

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A Designer AAV Variant Permits Efficient Retrograde Access to Projection Neurons.

DG Tervo, BY Hwang, S Viswanathan, T Gaj, M Lavzin, KD Ritola, S Lindo, S Michael, E Kuleshova, D Ojala, CC Huang, CR Gerfen, J Schiller, JT Dudman, AW Hantman, LL Looger, DV Schaffer and AY Karpova, Neuron, Oct 2016 19

Efficient retrograde access to projection neurons for the delivery of sensors and effectors constitutes an important and enabling capability for neural circuit dissection. Such an approach would also be useful for gene therapy, including the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by pathological spread through functionally connected and highly distributed networks. Viral vectors, in particular, are powerful gene delivery vehicles for the nervous system, but all available tools suffer from inefficient retrograde transport or limited clinical potential. To address this need, we applied in vivo directed evolution to engineer potent retrograde functionality into the capsid of adeno-associated virus (AAV), a vector that has shown promise in neuroscience research and the clinic. A newly evolved variant, rAAV2-retro, permits robust retrograde access to projection neurons with efficiency comparable to classical synthetic retrograde tracers and enables sufficient sensor/effector expression for functional circuit interrogation and in vivo genome editing in targeted neuronal populations. VIDEO ABSTRACT.

Has anyone used this in the paw to infect DRG neurons? I tried once and didn’t see much. Anyone else have success? Please share your experience.

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Has anyone used retro-AAV to retrogradely infect DRG neurons with intraplantar injections?

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