Tunneling nanotubes (TNT): A potential mechanism for intercellular trafficking of HIV

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-244

  Eugenin, Eliseo A ^a   Gaskill, Peter J ^a   Berman, Joan W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Communication; Connexin; Filopodia; HIV; Inflammation; Macrophages

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 77953715480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.3.8165     Document Type: Article

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