Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) causes severe thymocyte depletion in SCID- hu Thy/Liv mice

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1953-1960

  Gobbi, Alberto ^a   Stoddart, Cheryl A ^b   Malnati, Mauro S ^a   Locatelli, Giuseppe ^a   Santoro, Fabio ^a   Abbey, Nancy W ^c   Bare, Christopher ^b   Linquist Stepps, Valerie ^b   Moreno, Mary Beth ^b   Herndier, Brian G ^c   Lusso, Paolo ^a   McCune, Joseph M ^b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Polymerase chain reaction; T lymphocyte subsets flow cytometry; Thymus gland

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TROPISM; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0033591684     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.12.1953     Document Type: Article

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