Human immunodeficiency virus infection of human astrocytes disrupts blood-brain barrier integrity by a gap junction-dependent mechanism

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 9456-9465

  Eugenin, Eliseo A ^a   Clements, Janice E ^b   Christine Zink, M ^b   Berman, Joan W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LIPOXYGENASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; HIV ASSOCIATED DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MACACA NEMESTRINA; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME;

EID: 79960003831     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1460-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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