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ArticleJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2013

Increases in CSF dopamine in HIV patients are due to the dopamine transporter 10/10-repeat allele which is more frequent in HIV-infected individuals.

Anne Horn, Carsten Scheller, Stefan du Plessis, Gabriele Arendt, Thorsten Nolting, John Joska, Sieghart Sopper, Matthias Maschke, Mark Obermann, Ingo W Husstedt and 5 more

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Article in Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. EcoHIV Infection Disrupts Dopamine and Serotonin Transporter Function, Altering Release Dynamics in C57BL/6J Mice.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2026
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  4. Exploring new frontiers in the treatment of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025
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  7. Dopamine, Immunity, and Disease.Pharmacological reviews · 2023
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  8. Childhood trauma and genetic variation in theIBRO neuroscience reports · 2022
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  14. HIV, Tat and dopamine transmission.Neurobiology of disease · 2017
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  16. Selective Vulnerability of Striatal D2 versus D1 Dopamine Receptor-Expressing Medium Spiny Neurons in HIV-1 Tat Transgenic Male Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Anne HornInstitute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078, Würzburg, Germany.
Carsten Scheller
Stefan du Plessis
Gabriele Arendt
Thorsten Nolting
John Joska
Sieghart Sopper
Matthias Maschke
Mark Obermann
Ingo W Husstedt
Johannes Hain
Tongai Maponga
Peter Riederer
Eleni Koutsilieri
German Competence Network HIV/AIDS
University of Würzburg · DEInnsbruck Medical University · ATDüsseldorf University Hospital · DEStellenbosch University · ZAUniversity Hospital Münster · DEUniversity of Cape Town · ZAUniversity of Duisburg-Essen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dysfunction of dopaminergic neurotransmission has been implicated in HIV infection. We showed previously increased dopamine (DA) levels in CSF of therapy-naïve HIV patients and an inverse correlation between CSF DA and CD4 counts in the periphery, suggesting adverse effects of high levels of DA on HIV infection. In the current study including a total of 167 HIV-positive and negative donors from Germany and South Africa (SA), we investigated the mechanistic background for the increase of CSF DA in HIV individuals. Interestingly, we found that the DAT 10/10-repeat allele is present more frequently within HIV individuals than in uninfected subjects. Logistic regression analysis adjusted for gender and ethnicity showed an odds ratio for HIV infection in DAT 10/10 allele carriers of 3.93 (95% CI 1.72-8.96; p = 0.001, Fishers exact test). 42.6% HIV-infected patients harbored the DAT 10/10 allele compared to only 10.5% uninfected DAT 10/10 carriers in SA (odds ratio 6.31), whereas 68.1 versus 40.9%, respectively, in Germany (odds ratio 3.08). Subjects homozygous for the 10-repeat allele had higher amounts of CSF DA and reduced DAT mRNA expression but similar disease severity compared with those carrying other DAT genotypes. These intriguing and novel findings show the mutual interaction between DA and HIV, suggesting caution in the interpretation of CNS DA alterations in HIV infection solely as a secondary phenomenon to the virus and open the door for larger studies investigating consequences of the DAT functional polymorphism on HIV epidemiology and progression of disease.

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AdultAgedAIDS Dementia ComplexAllelesDopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsFemaleGenotypeHIV InfectionsHumansMaleMiddle AgedOdds RatioPolymorphism, GeneticReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionYoung AdultDopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins

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PMCPMC3779317
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