Interleukin-7 Facilitates HIV-1 Transmission to Cervico-Vaginal Tissue ex vivo

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Introini, Andrea ^a,b   Vanpouille, Christophe ^a   Lisco, Andrea ^a,c   Grivel, Jean Charles ^a   Margolis, Leonid ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VAGINA MUCOSA; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALATINE TONSIL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VAGINA; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84874789408     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003148     Document Type: Article

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