Regional quantitative comparison of multispliced to unspliced ratios of HIV-1 RNA copy number in infected human brain

Journal of Neuro-AIDS

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 45-60

  Fujimura, Robert K ^a,c   Khamis, Imad ^a   Shapshak, Paul ^a   Goodkin, Karl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortive infection; Quantification; Unspliced and multispliced RNA

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIRUS LOAD;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BRAIN; CELL LINE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIRUSES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA SPLICING; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 24344475280     PISSN: 10697438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J128v02n04_04     Document Type: Article

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