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Rho-mediated regulation of tight junctions during monocyte migration across the blood-brain barrier in HIV-1 encephalitis (HIVE).
Blood - 15 Jun 2006
Persidsky Yuri, Heilman David, Haorah James, Zelivyanskaya Marina, Persidsky Raisa, Weber Gregory A, Shimokawa Hiroaki, Kaibuchi Kozo, Ikezu Tsuneya
Abstract excerpt
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is compromised during progressive HIV-1 infection, but how this occurs is incompletely understood. We studied the integrity of tight junctions (TJs) of brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMVECs) in an in vitro BBB system and in human brain tissues with HIV-1 encephalitis (HIVE). A downregulation of TJ proteins, claudin-5 and occludin, paralleled monocyte migration into the brain...
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