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Chronic alcohol consumption results in higher simian immunodeficiency virus replication in mucosally inoculated rhesus macaquesBhawna Poonia
Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Reserch Center, Covington, Louisiana 70433, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 22:589-94. 2006....
Chronic alcohol consumption results in higher simian immunodeficiency virus replication in mucosally inoculated rhesus macaquesBhawna Poonia
Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA 70433, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 21:863-8. 2005....
Intestinal lymphocyte subsets and turnover are affected by chronic alcohol consumption: implications for SIV/HIV infectionBhawna Poonia
Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, 18703 Three Rivers Road, Covington, LA 70433, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 41:537-47. 2006..Thus, changes in the mucosal immune compartment (intestines) in response to alcohol are likely the major reasons behind higher replication of SIV observed in these animals...
Massive infection and loss of CD4+ T cells occurs in the intestinal tract of neonatal rhesus macaques in acute SIV infectionXiaolei Wang
Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, Covington, LA 70433, USA
Blood 109:1174-81. 2007..The results in dicate that "activated" central memory CD4+ T cells are the major target for early SIV infection and CD4+ T cell depletion in neonatal macaques...
Distribution of simian immunodeficiency virus target cells in vaginal tissues of normal rhesus macaques: implications for virus transmissionBhawna Poonia
Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, 18703 Three Rivers Road, Covington, LA 70433, USA
J Reprod Immunol 72:74-84. 2006..Microbicides that block CD4 or CCR5 expression may act within the deeper layers of the vaginal epithelium rather than on the epithelial surface...
