HIV lies dormant in brain, increasing risk of dementia, but how?
- Written by Doug Miller, PhD Candidate, University of Florida
HIV becomes dormant in the body and can hide in brain cells. Joseph Lebowitz, Dr. Min Lin, and Dr. Habibeh Khoshboue, CC BY-SAThe HIV virus, which causes AIDS, has long been known to target and disable cells of the immune system, which are responsible for fighting off invading microorganisms and for suppressing malignant cancers. More recently,...
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