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ArticleJournal of neurovirology2013

The spatial relationship between neurons and astrocytes in HIV-associated dementia.

Eleanor S Roberts, Gursharan Chana, Timothy B Nguyen, Gayathri Perera, Sabine Landau, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Jonathan D Glass, Justin McArthur, Ian Paul Everall

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Article in Journal of neurovirology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Astrocyte and Alzheimer's disease.Journal of neurology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Eleanor S RobertsKing's College London, Guy's Campus, Room 1.18 Hodgkin Building, SE1 1UL, London, UK.
Gursharan Chana
Timothy B Nguyen
Gayathri Perera
Sabine Landau
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
Jonathan D Glass
Justin McArthur
Ian Paul Everall
University of Melbourne · AUEmory University · USInstitute for Medical Informatics and Biostatistics · CHJohns Hopkins University · USKing's College London · GBThe Royal Melbourne Hospital · AUUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroAIDSR25MH081482 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MARIANA CHERNER · 2007 to 2026
$5.2M
Somatostain & Stress-Related Genes in HIV & Comorbid Major Depressive DisorderR01MH079881 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE · PI EVERALL, IAN PAUL · 2006 to 2010
$1.6M
VIROLOGIC ASPECTS OF HIV-ASSOCIATED NEUROLOGIC DISEASEP01NS026643 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BECHER, MARK · 1988 to 2002
$1.1M
Psychiatric Research Residency Training Track (R25)R25MH074508 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SWERDLOW, NEAL R · 2005 to 2009
$919k
TLR Gene Expression in HIV Neurocognitive DisorderR21MH078728 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ACHIM, CRISTIAN L · 2008 to 2009
$425k
Samaritan Compounds Suppress Viral Replication and Prevent Neuronal DamageR41MH079728 · NIMH · SAMARITAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. · PI EVERALL, IAN PAUL · 2007 to 2007
$250k
ZIDOVUDINE WITH PROBENECID--EFFECTS OF PROBENECID ON ZIDOVUDINEM01RR000722 · NCRR · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 1985 to 1996
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Specific neuronal spatial distributional patterns have previously been correlated with increasing severity of HIV-associated dementia (HAD). As astrocytes are also a putative site of neurotoxicity, we investigated the spatial relationships of astrocytes with pyramidal and interneurons in the superior frontal gyrus from 29 patients who died from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Frontal cortical brain tissue was taken from diseased HIV patients who had been assessed for the presence and severity of HAD using the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Scale. No correlation was found between neuronal density and severity of dementia. However, the pattern of astrocytes became more clustered as dementia progressed. Bivariate spatial pattern analysis of neuronal populations with astrocytes revealed that, with increasing dementia severity, astrocytes and large pyramidal neurons increasingly "repelled" each other, while astrocytes and interneurons evidenced increasing "attraction." This implies that astrocytes may be more likely to be situated in the vicinity of surviving interneurons but less likely to be situated near surviving large pyramidal neurons in the setting of progressing HAD.

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AIDS Dementia ComplexAstrocytesCell CommunicationCell CountHumansInterneuronsMaleOrgan SizePyramidal CellsSeverity of Illness Index

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PMID23430713
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