DIFFERENCES IN VIRAL DISTRIBUTION AND CELL-ADHESION MOLECULE EXPRESSION IN THE INTESTINAL-TRACT OF RHESUS MACAQUES INFECTED WITH PATHOGENICAND NONPATHOGENIC SIV
Jd. Stone et al., DIFFERENCES IN VIRAL DISTRIBUTION AND CELL-ADHESION MOLECULE EXPRESSION IN THE INTESTINAL-TRACT OF RHESUS MACAQUES INFECTED WITH PATHOGENICAND NONPATHOGENIC SIV, Journal of medical primatology, 24(3), 1995, pp. 132-140
We investigated SIV infection and expression of adhesion molecules in
the small intestine of rhesus macaques infected with pathogenic SIV (S
IVmac) or nonpathogenic clone (SIV1A11). There was a wider disseminati
on and marked difference in tissue localization of SIVmac relative to
SIV1A11. Our results also indicate that viral pathogenicity is associa
ted with increased migration of inflammatory cells expressing VLA-alph
a 4, LFA-1 alpha, Mac-1 alpha, ICAM-1, and beta 2 integrin into the in
testinal mucosa.