Article
Derivation of neurotropic simian immunodeficiency virus from exclusively lymphocytetropic parental virus: pathogenesis of infection in macaques.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1992
Sharma D P, Zink M C, Anderson M, Adams R, Clements J E, Joag S V, Narayan O
Abstract excerpt
Neurological disease resulting from lentivirus (including human immunodeficiency virus) infections is usually caused by a strain of virus that replicates productively in microglia in vivo and in macrophage cultures in vitro. We undertook this study using the model of simian immunodeficiency virus in macaques (SIVmac) to test the hypothesis that macrophage tropism is a prerequisite for neurotropism of the virus....
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Brain Diseases
- DNA, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Histocytochemistry
- Lung
- Lymphocytes
- Macaca mulatta
- Macrophages
