Journal article
1141180267Mechanism of HIV transmission across female primary genital epithelial cells
Abstract
Our lab is utilizing human primary genital epithelial cultures to investigate the mechanism of HIV transmission across the female genital mucosa. Primary endometrial epithelial cells (ECs) grown on matrigel‐ coated cell inserts were used for HIV infection studies. EC's were infected with cell‐ free or cell‐ associated R5 and X4 virus strains. Infections were performed in the presence or absence of the appropriate macrophage (U937) or T‐cell …
Authors
Fernandez; Bunce M; Kaushic C
Journal
American Journal Of Reproductive Immunology, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 397–397
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
6 2006
DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0897.2006.00383_17.x
ISSN
1046-7408