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Expansion of activated memory CD4+ T cells affects infectivity of CCR5-tropic HIV-1 in humanized NOD/SCID/JAK3null mice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Terahara Kazutaka, Ishige Masayuki, Ikeno Shota, Mitsuki Yu-ya, Okada Seiji, Kobayashi Kazuo, Tsunetsugu-Yokota Yasuko
Abstract excerpt
Humanized mice reconstituted with human hematopoietic cells have been developed as an experimental animal model for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Myeloablative irradiation is usually performed to augment the engraftment of donor hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in recipient mice; however, some mouse strains are susceptible to irradiation, making longitudinal analysis difficult. We...
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