HIV infection of non-dividing cells: a divisive problem
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Understanding how lentiviruses can infect terminally differentiated, non-dividing cells has proven a very complex and controversial problem. It is, however, a problem worth investigating, for it is central to HIV-1 transmission and AIDS pathogenesis. Here I shall...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-10-01
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| Series: | Retrovirology |
| Online Access: | http://www.retrovirology.com/content/3/1/74 |
| Summary: | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Understanding how lentiviruses can infect terminally differentiated, non-dividing cells has proven a very complex and controversial problem. It is, however, a problem worth investigating, for it is central to HIV-1 transmission and AIDS pathogenesis. Here I shall attempt to summarise what is our current understanding for HIV-1 infection of non-dividing cells. In some cases I shall also attempt to make sense of controversies in the field and advance one or two modest proposals.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1742-4690 |