Dexamethasone therapy worsens the neuropathology of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 encephalitis in SCID mice

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1368-1381

  Limoges, Jenae ^b   Persidsky, Yuri ^b   Bock, Paul ^b   Gendelman, Howard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN BIOPSY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 0030922605     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516469     Document Type: Article

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