A video densitometric analysis of viral burden and follicular dendritic cell damage in lymph nodes in the latency phase of HIV infection

Cytometry

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 209-213

  Zannini, Carla ^a   Favre, Anna ^a   Ciccone, Ermanno ^a   Plebani, Alessandro ^b   Duse, Marzia ^b   Grossi, Carlo E ^a   Pesce, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Follicular dendritic cells; Germinal centers; HIV; Image analysis; Immunohistochemistry; Quantitation; Vital load

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEODENSITOMETRY; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS LOAD; VOLUMETRY;

DENDRITIC CELLS, FOLLICULAR; DENSITOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HIV; HIV CORE PROTEIN P24; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPH NODES; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT 3D; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS LATENCY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LILIUM; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0033922637     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0320(20000701)40:3<209::AID-CYTO5>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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