1st Edition
The Cellular Basis of Central Nervous System HIV-1 Infection and the AIDS Dementia Complex
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this exciting symposium, the editor brings to print important new information on AIDS and how HIV affects the brain. Each chapter focuses on one or more of the cell types that reside in or traffic through the central nervous system (CNS). Each of these cells is important to considerations of the pathogenesis of the CNS. Neurologists, AIDS physicians, and other professionals caring for AIDS... Read more
Contents
The Cellular Basis of Central Nervous System HIV-1 Infection and the AIDS Dementia Complex: Introduction
- Traffic of Lymphocytes Into the CNS During Inflammation and HIV Infection
- Microglia in HIV-Related CNS Neuropathology: An Update
- HIV Infection of the Brain Microvasculature and Its Contribution to the AIDS Dementia Complex
- Ependyma and Choroid Plexus
- Astrocytes and the AIDS Dementia Complex
- Cellular Basis of HIV Infection of the CNS and the AIDS Dementia Complex: Oligodendrocyte
- Patterns of Neurodegeneration in HIV Encephalitis
- Index
Biography
Price, Richard W; Sidtis, John J
