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Neuroinvasion by simian immunodeficiency virus coincides with increased numbers of perivascular macrophages/microglia and intrathecal immune activation

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Findings provide evidence suggesting that neuroinvasion occurs through an influx of infected monocytes which take up residence in the CNS as perivascular macrophages/microglia, as well as confirming the role of VCAM-1 expression in this event.
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During peak viremia and initial antibody response, rhesus macaques infected with pathogenic and nonpathogenic isolates of SIV show distinct differences in viral load and tissue distribution. Animal...

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Microglia as mediators of inflammatory and degenerative diseases.

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Perivascular Macrophages Are the Primary Cell Type Productively Infected by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus in the Brains of Macaques: Implications for the Neuropathogenesis of AIDS

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Leukocyte traffic in the central nervous system: the participants and their roles.

TL;DR: In this review the nature and function of individual cell types are discussed and the current knowledge regarding the parameters governing their entry into the CNS is examined.
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Detection of AIDS virus in macrophages in brain tissue from AIDS patients with encephalopathy.

TL;DR: The identity of an important cell type that supports replication of the AIDS retrovirus in brain tissue was determined in two affected individuals and these cells were mononucleated and multinucleated macrophages that actively synthesized viral RNA and produced progeny virions in the brains of the patients.
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Perivascular microglial cells of the CNS are bone marrow-derived and present antigen in vivo.

TL;DR: Rat bone marrow chimeras and encephalitogenic, major histocompatability--restricted T-helper lymphocytes were used to show that a subset of endogenous CNS cells, commonly termed "perivascular microglial cells," is bone marrow-derived and are fully competent to present antigen to lymphocytes in an appropriately restricted manner.
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T-lymphocyte entry into the central nervous system

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that when T‐lymphoblasts are introduced into the circulation they rapidly appear in the CNS tissue, and lymphocytes which have entered, exit within 1 to 2 days.
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Isolation of HTLV-III from Cerebrospinal Fluid and Neural Tissues of Patients with Neurologic Syndromes Related to the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

TL;DR: It is suggested that HTLV-III is neurotropic, is capable of causing acute meningitis, is responsible for AIDS-related chronic meneditis and dementia, and may be the cause of the spinal-cord degeneration and peripheral neuropathy in AIDS andAIDS-related complex.
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Preferential migration of activated CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in response to MIP-1 alpha and MIP-1 beta

TL;DR: Results suggest that rhMIP-1 cytokines preferentially recruit specific T cell subsets during the evolution of the immune response, and enhance the ability of T cells to bind to an endothelial cell monolayer.
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