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Opioids and the progression of simian AIDS.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 May 2005
Chuang Ronald Y, Suzuki Shunji, Chuang Ted K, Miyagi Tomoko, Chuang Linda F, Doi Roy H
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This review is a concise description of the study undertaken to examine the modulation by opioids of simian acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (SAIDS) induced by inoculation of rhesus monkeys with simian AIDS virus SIVmac239. The study showed that the replication rate of the virus was several times greater in monkeys made dependent on morphine than in those of non-morphine treated monkeys. Further, a significant...
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