HIV mediates a productive infection of the brain

AIDS

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2055-2059

  Wiley, Clayton A ^a,d   Achim, Cristian L ^a   Christopherson, Cindy ^b   Kidane, Yorda ^b   Kwok, Shirley ^b   Masliah, Eliezer ^c   Mellors, John ^a   Radhakrishnan, Lakshmi ^a   Wang, Guoji ^a   Soontornniyomkij, Virawudh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; HIV; HIV DNA; HIV RNA; Macroglia; Macrophages; Microglia

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS LOAD;

AIDS DEMENTIA COMPLEX; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; DNA, VIRAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MICROGLIA; PROVIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032712265     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199910220-00007     Document Type: Article

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