Morphine suppresses IFN signaling pathway and enhances AIDS virus infection.

Opioids exert a profound influence on immunomodulation and enhance HIV infection and replication. However, the mechanism(s) of their action remains to be determined. We thus investigated the impact of morphine on the intracellular innate antiviral immunity.Seven-day-cultured macrophages were infecte...

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Main Authors: Yizhong Wang, Xu Wang, Li Ye, Jieliang Li, Li Song, Nilija Fulambarkar, Wenzhe Ho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3281044?pdf=render