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HIV-1 Tat protein variants: critical role for the cysteine region in synaptodendritic injury.
Experimental neurology - 1 Oct 2013
Bertrand Sarah J, Aksenova Marina V, Mactutus Charles F, Booze Rosemarie M
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 enters the central nervous system early in infection; although HIV-1 does not directly infect neurons, HIV-1 may cause a variety of neurological disorders. Neuronal loss has been found in HIV-1, but synaptodendritic injury is more closely associated with the neurocognitive disorders of HIV-1. The HIV-1 transactivator of transcription (Tat) protein causes direct and indirect damage to neurons. The cysteine...
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