Transfer of intracellular HIV Nef to endothelium causes endothelial dysfunction.

With effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are emerging as a major cause of morbidity and death in the aging HIV-infected population. To address whether HIV-Nef, a viral protein produced in infected cells even when virus production is halted by ART, can lead to endoth...

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Main Authors: Ting Wang, Linden A Green, Samir K Gupta, Chul Kim, Liang Wang, Sharilyn Almodovar, Sonia C Flores, Igor A Prudovsky, Paul Jolicoeur, Ziyue Liu, Matthias Clauss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3946685?pdf=render