Article
Increased CCR5 and CXCR4 expression in Ethiopians living in Israel: environmental and constitutive factors.
Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) - 1 Jul 2001
Kalinkovich A, Borkow G, Weisman Z, Tsimanis A, Stein M, Bentwich Z
Abstract excerpt
HIV coreceptors play a major role in determining susceptibility and HIV cell tropism. The present work studied whether the high expression of these coreceptors found on lymphocytes and monocytes of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel (ETH) is the result of environmental and/or constitutive genetic fac...
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