Infusion of HIV-1 Nef-expressing astrocytes into the rat hippocampus induces enteropathy and interstitial pneumonitis and increases blood-brain-barrier permeability.

Rivera J, Isidro RA, Loucil-Alicea RY, Cruz ML, Appleyard CB, Isidro AA, Chompre G, Colon-Rivera K, Noel RJ. Infusion of HIV-1 Nef-expressing astrocytes into the rat hippocampus induces enteropathy and interstitial pneumonitis and increases blood-brain-barrier permeability. PLoS One. 2019; 14(11):e0225760.

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subject areas

Animals
Astrocytes
Blood-Brain Barrier
Cells, Cultured
Hippocampus
Interleukin-1beta
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
Macrophages
Male
nef Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Neurons
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley

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Caroline Appleyard
Richard Noel

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