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HIV-1 transgene expression in rats induces differential expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha and zinc transporters in the liver and the lung

Overview of attention for article published in AIDS Research and Therapy, October 2011
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Title
HIV-1 transgene expression in rats induces differential expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha and zinc transporters in the liver and the lung
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AIDS Research and Therapy, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1742-6405-8-36
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Pratibha C Joshi, David M Guidot

Abstract

Highly effective antiviral treatment can suppress HIV-1 infection, but the chronic effects of HIV-1-related viral proteins, including gp120 and Tat, on organs such as the lungs can be damaging. HIV-1 transgenic rodent models are useful for studying the systemic effects of these proteins independently of viral infection. We have previously shown that HIV-1 transgene expression (and therefore, HIV-1-related protein expression) in rats decreases alveolar macrophage zinc levels and phagocytic capacity by unknown mechanisms. We hypothesized that HIV-1 transgene expression induces chronic inflammation and zinc sequestration within the liver and thereby decreases zinc bioavailability in the lung. We examined the expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokine, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), the zinc storage protein, metallothionein (MT1), and the zinc exporter, ZNT1 in the livers and the lungs of wild type and HIV-1 transgenic rats ± dietary zinc supplementation. In addition, we measured zinc levels, the zinc importing protein ZIP1, and the phagocytic capacity in the alveolar macrophages.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 6%
Unknown 17 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 50%
Student > Master 3 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Professor 1 6%
Student > Bachelor 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 1 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 39%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 11%
Engineering 2 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 6%
Other 0 0%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 October 2011.
All research outputs
#14,276,973
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from AIDS Research and Therapy
#260
of 637 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,649
of 145,913 outputs
Outputs of similar age from AIDS Research and Therapy
#2
of 8 outputs
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