Nervous System 231
138.A febrile 52-year-old male patient receiving glucocorticoid treatment
presents with vesicular lesions with intense itching, burning, and sharp
pain along the back in a specific dermatomal pattern covering his nipple
and extending onto the right side of his back. The vesicular lesions do not
cross the midline. A Tzanck test is positive. The cause of this illness is the
movement of virus from the structures shown in the photomicrograph
toward the surface of the skin. This movement occurs in which direction
and by which molecular motor?
a. Minus end to plus end, dynein
b. Minus end to plus end, kinesin
c. Plus end to minus end, dynein
d. Plus end to minus end, kinesin
e. Minus end to plus end, myosin II