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HIV Reprograms Human Airway Basal Stem/Progenitor Cells to Acquire a Tissue-Destructive Phenotype.
Cell reports - 9 May 2017
Chung Nancy P Y, Ou Xuemei, Khan K M Faisal, Salit Jacqueline, Kaner Robert J, Crystal Ronald G
Abstract excerpt
While highly active anti-retroviral therapy has dramatically improved the survival of HIV-infected individuals, there is an increased risk for other co-morbidities, such as COPD, manifesting as emphysema. Given that emphysema originates around the airways and that human airway basal cells (BCs) are adult airway stem/progenitor cells, we hypothesized that HIV reprograms BCs to a distinct phenotype that contributes...
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