A Espinosa and LP Villarreal When introduced into ES cells of a blastocyct, polyomavirus (Py) T-Ag results in mice mosaic for T-Ag but otherwise essentially normal. It has been reported that SV40 T-Ag does not inhibit differentiation of F9 EC cells, but did inhibit endogenous retrovirus (IAP) production. We therefore sought to determine if …
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Analysis of the Kinetics of Latent HIV-1 Present in the Resting CD4+ T-Lymphocytes of HIV-1-Infected Children Treated with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy D Persaud, T Pierson, C Ruff, K Chadwick, J Margolick, A Ruff, N Hutton, RF Silicano Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) persists in a latent state in the resting CD4+ T lymphocytes …
Herpes 11:2(Suppl):83A-88A, 2004 Robert Yolken ABSTRACT: Various factors have been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Evidence for an infectious cause includes the 508% increased risk among those born in the winter-spring months, when infectious diseases are more prevalent and at times when other infections (measles, varicella, poliomyelitis) show increased activity. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) …
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To explore the contribution of infectious exposure to schizophrenia, we determined the levels of several antibodies to infectious agents in blood samples collected in a randomized double-blind 52 week clinical trial in China. The sample included 160 first-episode schizophrenia patients and 60 normal controls balanced in distribution of age (28 ±7), gender (53% male vs. …
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CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SYSTEMIC QUINOLINIC ACID IN SCHIZOPHRENIA LD Bobo*, RH Yolken, EF Torrey, JD Paltan-Ortiz, MM Herman, NC Briggs, H Velasco, M Zito, MP Heyes Stanley Research Foundation, NAMI, Washington DC Immunologic marker elevations in schizophrenia have been reported. Quinolinic acid (QUIN), a potential neurotoxic product of immune-activated macrophages and microglia, has been …
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The overall goal of The Stanley Neurovirology Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is to develop a training and research program devoted to the elucidation of the role of infection and immunity in the etiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Consumers: See Department/Programs
COMPARATIVE IMMUNOVIROLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HHV-6, HHV-7, AND HHV-8 IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS), AND OTHER NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS (OND), AND HEALTHY DONORS (HD) *D.V. Ablashi1,2, J. Friedman3, G. Pearson2, J. Zabriskie3, and J.E. Whitman1 1Advanced Biotechnologies Inc., Columbia, MD; 2Georgetown Univ Sch of Med, Washington DC; 3Lab of Clin Microbiology/Immunology, Rockefeller Univ New York, NY Previous reports …
THE 7TH SYMPOSIUM ON THE NEUROVIROLOGY AND NEUROIMMUNOLOGY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER – FOCUS ON GENOMICS, PROTEOMICS AND CLINICAL TRIALS WAS A HUGH SUCCESS. ABSTRACTS AND SLIDES FROM THE MEETING ARE NOW ON THIS SITE. CLICK HERE TO VIEW WE THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION WE WILL NOT HAVE A GENERAL MEETING FOR 2002. WE …
