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Article #2116Re: Does HIV kill cells?
From: Matthew P Wiener
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:04
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:04
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In article <2msg2u$ste@s.ms.uky.edu>, mpm@seqanal (Mark Mattson) writes: >With respect to HIV itself, I think it is clear that the virus can >kill neurons in the CNS, apparently by stimulating an influx of >calcium. It is not clear (to me, anyway) whether this phenomenon >involves killing of uninfected neurons by extracellular holovirus or >whether it's only infected cells that die. HIV does not, apparently, infect neurons. It infects microglia, and causes them to join together. -- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107c0a,1b241de11115c682 X-Google-Attributes: gid107c0a,public X-Google-Thread: 103cc5,1b241de11115c682 X-Google-Attributes: gid103cc5,public X-Google-Thread: f8e22,1b241de11115c682 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e22,public X-Google-Thread: ff2c4,1b241de11115c682 X-Google-Attributes: gidff2c4,public X-Google-Thread: 11045f,1b241de11115c682 X-Google-Attributes: gid11045f,public X-Google-Thread: 1119a6,1b241de11115c682 X-Google-Attributes: gid1119a6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-03-24 12:04:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!att-in!news.bu.edu!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!news From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) Newsgroups: bionet.general,bionet.cellbiol,bionet.molbio.hiv,bionet.virology,bionet.immunology,sci.bio Subject: Re: Does HIV kill cells? Followup-To: sci.bio Date: 24 Mar 1994 20:04:10 GMT Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology Lines: 11 Message-ID: <2msrnq$gtb@netnews.upenn.edu> References: <1994Mar24.085208.16835@leeds.ac.uk> <2msg2u$ste@s.ms.uky.edu> Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) NNTP-Posting-Host: sagi.wistar.upenn.edu In-reply-to: mpm@seqanal.mi.uky.edu (Mark Mattson)