Title |
Associations between brain microstructures, metabolites, and cognitive deficits during chronic HIV-1 infection of humanized mice
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Published in |
Molecular Neurodegeneration, December 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1750-1326-9-58 |
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Authors |
Michael D Boska, Prasanta K Dash, Jaclyn Knibbe, Adrian A Epstein, Sidra P Akhter, Natasha Fields, Robin High, Edward Makarov, Stephen Bonasera, Harris A Gelbard, Larisa Y Poluektova, Howard E Gendelman, Santhi Gorantla |
Abstract |
Host-species specificity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) limits pathobiologic, diagnostic and therapeutic research investigations to humans and non-human primates. The emergence of humanized mice as a model for viral infection of the nervous system has overcome such restrictions enabling research for HIV-associated end organ disease including behavioral, cognitive and neuropathologic deficits reflective of neuroAIDS. Chronic HIV-1 infection of NOD/scid-IL-2Rgcnull mice transplanted with human CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells (CD34-NSG) leads to persistent viremia, profound CD4+ T lymphocyte loss and infection of human monocyte-macrophages in the meninges and perivascular spaces. Murine cells are not infected with virus. |
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