"Giant Cells" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Multinucleated masses produced by the fusion of many cells; often associated with viral infections. In AIDS, they are induced when the envelope glycoprotein of the HIV virus binds to the CD4 antigen of uninfected neighboring T4 cells. The resulting syncytium leads to cell death and thus may account for the cytopathic effect of the virus.
| Descriptor ID |
D015726
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Giant Cells- Giant Cells
- Cell, Giant
- Cells, Giant
- Giant Cell
- Syncytium
- Polykaryocytes
- Polykaryocyte
- Syncytia
- Giant Cells, Multinucleated
- Cell, Multinucleated Giant
- Cells, Multinucleated Giant
- Giant Cell, Multinucleated
- Multinucleated Giant Cell
- Multinucleated Giant Cells
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Giant Cells" by people in Profiles.
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Benedikt J, Malpica-Nieves CJ, Rivera Y, M?ndez-Gonz?lez M, Nichols CG, Veh RW, Eaton MJ, Skatchkov SN. The Polyamine Spermine Potentiates the Propagation of Negatively Charged Molecules through the Astrocytic Syncytium. Biomolecules. 2022 12 05; 12(12).
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Qiao JH, Mishra V, Fishbein MC, Sinha SK, Rajavashisth TB. Multinucleated giant cells in atherosclerotic plaques of human carotid arteries: Identification of osteoclast-like cells and their specific proteins in artery wall. Exp Mol Pathol. 2015 Dec; 99(3):654-62.
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Chiang CY, Ulrich RL, Ulrich MP, Eaton B, Ojeda JF, Lane DJ, Kota KP, Kenny TA, Ladner JT, Dickson SP, Kuehl K, Raychaudhuri R, Sun M, Bavari S, Wolcott MJ, Covell D, Panchal RG. Characterization of the murine macrophage response to infection with virulent and avirulent Burkholderia species. BMC Microbiol. 2015 Nov 06; 15:259.
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Benedikt J, Inyushin M, Kucheryavykh YV, Rivera Y, Kucheryavykh LY, Nichols CG, Eaton MJ, Skatchkov SN. Intracellular polyamines enhance astrocytic coupling. Neuroreport. 2012 Dec 05; 23(17):1021-5.
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Walpita P, Barr J, Sherman M, Basler CF, Wang L. Vaccine potential of Nipah virus-like particles. PLoS One. 2011 Apr 06; 6(4):e18437.
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Kochar M, L?pez-Candales A, Ramani G, Rajagopalan N, Edelman K. Unusual echocardiographic features seen in a case of giant cell myocarditis. Can J Cardiol. 2008 Nov; 24(11):855-6.
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Benson J, Tschachler E, Gessain A, Yanagihara R, Gallo RC, Franchini G. Cross-neutralizing antibodies against cosmopolitan and Melanesian strains of human T cell leukemia/lymphotropic virus type I in sera from inhabitants of Africa and the Solomon Islands. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 1994 Jan; 10(1):91-6.
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Yamaguchi M, Ogren L, Endo H, Thordarson G, Bigsby RM, Talamantes F. Production of mouse placental lactogen-I and placental lactogen-II by the same giant cell. Endocrinology. 1992 Oct; 131(4):1595-602.
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Bhattacharyya S, Chaudhary J, Das C. Antibodies to hCG inhibit progesterone production from human syncytiotrophoblast cells. Placenta. 1992 Mar-Apr; 13(2):135-9.