* Effects of chronic HIV-1 Tat exposure in the CNS: heightened vulnerability of males versus females to changes in cell numbers, synaptic integrity, and behavior.
- HIV-associated damage to the central nervous system results in cognitive and motor deficits. Anti-retroviral therapies reduce the severity of symptoms, yet the proportion of patients affected has remained the same or increased. Although approximately half of HIV-infected patients worldwide are women, the question of whether biological sex influences outcomes of HIV infection has received little attention. We explored this question for both behavioral and cellular/morphologic endpoints, using a transgenic mouse that inducibly expresses HIV-1 Tat in the brain. After 3 months of HIV-1 Tat exposure, both sexes showed similar reduced open field ambulation. Male Tat(+) mice also showed reduced forelimb grip strength and enhanced anxiety in a light-dark box assay. Tat(+) males did not improve over 12 weeks of repeated rotarod testing, indicating a motor memory deficit. Male mice also had more cellular deficits in the striatum. Neither sex showed a change in volume or total neuron numbers. Both had equally reduced oligodendroglial populations and equivalent microglial increases. However, astrogliosis and microglial nitrosative stress were higher in males. Dendrites on medium spiny neurons in male Tat(+) mice had fewer spines, and levels of excitatory and inhibitory pre- and post-synaptic proteins were disrupted. Our results predict sex as a determinant of HIV effects in brain. Increased behavioral deficits in males correlated with glial activation and synaptic damage, both of which are implicated in cognitive/motor impairments in patients. Tat produced by residually infected cells despite antiretroviral therapy may be an important determinant of the synaptodendritic instability and behavioral deficits accompanying chronic infection.
=>1.超えて, 一面に, 移って, 始めから終わりまで, 終わって, を支配して, の間, しながら, 倒れて, の上に,
を覆って, を越えて, の向こう側に, より多く, 2.もう一度, 繰り返して
Overview of noun over
The noun over has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. over -- ((cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one
player from the other team from the same end of the pitch)
Overview of adj over
The adj over has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (21) complete, concluded, ended, over, all over, terminated -- (having come or been brought to a
conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly
terminated interview")
Overview of adv over
The adv over has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (23) over -- (at or to a point across intervening space etc.; "come over and see us some time";
"over there")
2. (2) over -- (throughout an area; "he is known the world over")
3. (1) over, o'er -- (throughout a period of time; "stay over the weekend")
4. over -- (beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position; "a roof that
hangs over";)
5. all over, over -- (over the entire area; "the wallpaper was covered all over with flowers"; "she
ached all over"; "everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot")
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