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HIV infection of macrophages and pathogenesis of AIDS dementia complex: interaction of the host cell and viral genotype.
Journal of leukocyte biology - 1 Jul 1997
Cunningham A L, Naif H, Saksena N, Lynch G, Chang J, Li S, Jozwiak R, Alali M, Wang B, Fear W, Sloane A, Pemberton L, Brew B
Abstract excerpt
AIDS dementia complex (ADC) develops in only a third of HIV-infected patients who progress to AIDS. Macrophages and microglial cells are the major cellular sites of productive HIV replication in brain. Using 11 blood isolates of HIV from asymptomatic patients there was marked variation in tropism and the level of productive infection in recently adherent monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages cultured in...
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