HIV and antiretroviral therapy in the brain: neuronal injury and repair

Ronald Ellis, Dianne Langford, Eliezer Masliah

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SUMMARY: With combination antiretroviral therapy, HIV becomes a chronic, manageable condition. Ellis and colleagues explore how this has altered the time course of cognitive impairment associated with inf

CONTEXT: ...with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) often involve severe and disabling dementia. Less well known, however, is that combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) (Box 1), by transforming HIV from a fatal illness into a chronic, ...Full text...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 33 - 44 (01 Jan 2007)