Lack of correlation between HERV-K expression and HIV-1 viral load in plasma specimens

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 122-125

  Esqueda, Daniel ^a   Xu, Fangling ^b   Moore, Yuliana ^a   Yang, Zhen ^b   Huang, Gengming ^b   Lennon, Patrick A ^a   Hu, Peter C ^a   Dong, Jianli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNase I digestion; HERV K expression; HIV 1 viral load

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HERV K VIRUS RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS LOAD;

DNASE I DIGESTION; HERV-K EXPRESSION; HIV-1 VIRAL LOAD;

DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84878186586     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: 15508080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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