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HTLV-III infection in brains of children and adults with AIDS encephalopathy
George M. Shaw,Mary E. Harper,Beatrice H. Hahn,Leon G. Epstein,D. Carleton Gajdusek,Richard W. Price,Bradford A. Navia,Carol K. Petito,Carl O'Hara,Jerome E. Groopman,Eun Sook Cho,James M. Oleske,Flossie Wong-Staal,Robert C. Gallo +13 more
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Brains from 15 individuals with AIDS and encephalopathy were examined by Southern analysis and in situ hybridization for the presence of human T-cell leukemia (lymphotropic) virus type III (HTLV-III), the virus believed to be the causative agent of AIDS.Abstract:
Unexplained debilitating dementia or encephalopathy occurs frequently in adults and children with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Brains from 15 individuals with AIDS and encephalopathy were examined by Southern analysis and in situ hybridization for the presence of human T-cell leukemia (lymphotropic) virus type III (HTLV-III), the virus believed to be the causative agent of AIDS. HTLV-III DNA was detected in the brains of five patients, and viral-specific RNA was detected in four of these. In view of these findings and the recent demonstration of morphologic and genetic relatedness between HTLV-III and visna virus, a lentivirus that causes a chronic degenerative neurologic disease in sheep, HTLV-III should be evaluated further as a possible cause of AIDS encephalopathy.read more
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Guidelines for the use of antiretroviral agents in HIV-infected adults and adolescents
Anthony S. Fauci,John G. Bartlett,Eric P. Goosby,M. D. Smith,H. J. Kaiser,S. W. Chang,James M. Anderson,R. Armstead,A. C. Baker,David A Barr,Samuel A. Bozzette,S. Cox,M. Delaney,Fred M. Gordin,W. Greaves,M. Harrington,J. J. Henning,Martin S. Hirsch,J. Jacobs,Richard Marlink,C. Maxwell,J. W. Mellors,D. B. Nash,S. Perryman,Robert T. Schooley,R. Sherer,Stephen A. Spector,G. Torres,Paul A. Volberding,B. A. Brady,E. M. Daniels,D. Feigal,Mark B. Feinberg,H. D. Gayle,T. R. Graydon,Jonathan E. Kaplan,Abe M. Macher,R. F. Martin,Henry Masur,Lynne M. Mofenson,J. Murray,J. O'Neill,L. C. Perez,R. Riseberg,S. Shekar,Sharilyn K. Stanley,J. Whitescarver +46 more
TL;DR: These Guidelines were developed by the Panel* on Clinical Practices for Treatment of HIV Infection convened by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Antibodies to human t-lymphotropic virus type-i in patients with tropical spastic paraparesis
TL;DR: Findings suggest either that HTLV-I is neurotropic or that the virus or a related one contributes to the pathogenesis of TSP.
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The T4 gene encodes the AIDS virus receptor and is expressed in the immune system and the brain.
Paul J. Maddon,Angus G. Dalgleish,J. Steven McDougal,Paul R. Clapham,Robin A. Weiss,Richard Axel +5 more
TL;DR: The studies support a mechanism of AIDS virus infection that initially involves the specific interaction of theAIDS virus with T4 molecules on the cell surface, and find that the T4 gene is expressed in the brain as well as in lymphoid cells, providing an explanation for the dual neurotropic and lymphotropic character of the AIDS virus.
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3'-Azido-3'-deoxythymidine (BW A509U): an antiviral agent that inhibits the infectivity and cytopathic effect of human T-lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus in vitro.
Hiroaki Mitsuya,Kent J. Weinhold,P A Furman,M H St Clair,S N Lehrman,Robert C. Gallo,Dani P. Bolognesi,David Walter Barry,Samuel Broder +8 more
TL;DR: The antiviral effects of a thymidine analogue,3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (BW A509U), which, as a triphosphate, inhibits the reverse transcriptase of HTLV-III/LAV, and the in vitro immune functions of normal T cells remain basically intact.
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The role of mononuclear phagocytes in HTLV-III/LAV infection
Suzanne Gartner,Paul Markovits,David M. Markovitz,Mark H. Kaplan,Robert C. Gallo,Mikulas Popovic +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that mononuclear phagocytes may serve as primary targets for infection and agents for virus dissemination and that these virus-infected cells may play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease.
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Frequent detection and isolation of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and at risk for AIDS
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TL;DR: Peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or with signs or symptoms that frequently precede AIDS (pre-AIDS) were grown in vitro with added T-cell growth factor and assayed for the expression and release of human T-lymphotropic retroviruses (HTLV).
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Detection, Isolation, and Continuous Production of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and Pre-AIDS
TL;DR: A cell system was developed for the reproducible detection of human T-lymphotropic retroviruses (HTLV family) from patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or with signs or symptoms that frequently precede AIDS (pre-AIDS), and it provides large amounts of virus for detailed molecular and immunological analyses.
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Neurological complications of acquired immune deficiency syndrome: analysis of 50 patients
William D. Snider,David M. Simpson,Surl L Nielsen,W. M. Jonathan Gold,W. M. Jonathan Gold,Craig E. Metroka,Jerome B. Posner +6 more
TL;DR: Fifty patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome had complications affecting the central or peripheral nervous systems or both, and the patients were either male homosexuals, intravenous drug abusers, or recently arrived Haitian refugees.
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Antibodies reactive with human T-lymphotropic retroviruses (HTLV-III) in the serum of patients with AIDS
TL;DR: Serum samples from 88 percent of patients with AIDS and from 79 percent of homosexual men with signs and symptoms that frequently precede AIDS, but from less than 1 percent of heterosexual subjects, have antibodies reactive against antigens of HTLV-III, and the major immune reactivity appears to be directed against p41, the presumed envelope antigen of the virus.
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The akr thymic antigen and its distribution in leukemias and nervous tissues
Arnold E. Reif,Joan M. Allen +1 more
TL;DR: A clear-cut serological differentiation between AKR lymphocytes of thymic and non-thymic origin is reported: these two cell types are antigenically distinct.