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Intrarectal transmission, systemic infection, and CD4+ T cell depletion in humanized mice infected with HIV-1.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 16 Apr 2007
Sun Zhifeng, Denton Paul W, Estes Jacob D, Othieno Florence A, Wei Bangdong L, Wege Anja K, Melkus Michael W, Padgett-Thomas Angela, Zupancic Mary, Haase Ashley T, Garcia J Victor
Abstract excerpt
Intrarectal infection between men who have sex with men represents a predominant form of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission in developed countries. Currently there are no adequate small animal models that recapitulate intrarectal HIV transmission. Here we demonstrate that human lymphocytes generated in situ from hematopoietic stem cells reconstitute the gastrointestinal tract of humanized mice with...
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