Search Abstracts Program


Session 18   Oral Abstract Presentations
Viral Neuropathogenesis
Wednesday 10 am - 12:30 pm
Ballroom C
Moderators: Paul Clapham Univ of Massachusetts Med Ctr, Worcester and Christina Marra Univ of Seattle, WA
10:00       86Persistent Brain Injury in HIV Patients on ART
V. A. Cardenas1,2, D. J. Meyerhoff1,2, L. L. Chao1,2, J. C. Rothlind1,2, C. Studholme1,2, L. J. Rogers1,2, H. Lampiris1,2, M. Chesney1, M. W. Weiner*1,2
1Univ of California at San Francisco and 2Veterans Affairs Med Ctr, San Francisco, CA
10:15       87HIV-associated Neuromuscular Weakness Syndrome
D. Simpson*1, L. Estanislao1, K. Marcus3, M. Truffa3, J. McArthur4, B. Lucey4, D. Dorfman1, R. Naismith5, I. Guerrero6, J. Mendez6, T. Lonergan7, Y. Landau8, M. Harris9, J. Montaner9, D. Clifford5
1Mt Sinai Med Ctr, New York, NY; 3FDA, Bethesda, MD; 4Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD; 5Washington Univ Sch of Med, St Louis, MO; 6Univ of Miami, FL; 7Univ of California at San Diego; 8Nassau County Med Ctr, Long Island, NY; and 9British Columbia Ctr for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada
10:30       88Adaptation of Neurotropic Primary HIV-1 Isolates for CD4-independent Replication
R. Dunfee*1,2, P. Gorry1,2, J. Taylor3, K. Kunstman3, J. Bell4, S. Wolinsky3, D. Gabuzda1,2
1Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA; 2Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA; 3Northwestern Univ Med Sch, Chicago, IL; and 4Univ of Edinburgh, Scotland
10:45       89Systemic Macrophage Infection Associated with Development of SIV Encephalitis
S. J. Bissel*, G. Wang, A. M. Trichel, M. Murphey-Corb, C. A. Wiley
Univ of Pittsburgh, PA
11:00       90Clearance of HIV-1 RNA from Cerebrospinal Fluid is Most Rapid during the First Three Days of Antiretroviral Therapy in Asymptomatic Patients
D. W. Haas*, B. Johnson, T. Hulgan, J. Nicotera, P. Spearman
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville, TN
11:15       91CXCR4-mediated Signaling on Neural Progenitor Cells: Relevance to HIV-1 Associated Dementia
H. Peng*, Y. Huang, D. Erichsen, J. Zheng
Univ of Nebraska Med Ctr, Omaha
11:30       92Regionalization of Drug Resistance in Diverse Areas of the Brain in Patients with and without Dementia who Received HAART
N.K. Saksena*1, T.K. Smit1, W.Tourtellotte2, B.J. Brew3, S.Morgello4
1Westmead Millennium Inst, Sydney, Australia; 2West Los Angeles Hlthcare Ctr, CA; 3St Vincent's Hosp, Sydney, Australia; and 4Manhattan Brain Bank, New York, NY
11:45       93Tracking Movement of Super-paramagnetic Iron Oxide Labeled Monocytes in Brain by High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Relevance for HIV-1 Associated Dementia
M. Zelivyanskaya*1, J. Nelson1, L. Poluektova1, M. Uberti2, M. Boska1, H. Gendelman1
1Univ of Nebraska Med Ctr, Omaha and 2Univ of Nebraska, Omaha
12:00       94Impaired Nerve Regeneration in HIV-associated Neuropathy
M. J. Polydefkis*, P. Hauer, A. Brown, J. M. McArthur
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore, MD
12:15       95Vacuolar Myelopathy In Transgenic Mice Expressing HIV-1 Nef in Oligodendrocytes With Alteration of Oligodendrocyte Phenotype In Vitro
D. G. Kay*1, F. Radja1, S. Albrecht2, P. Jolicoeur1,3,4
1Clin Res Inst of Montréal, Canada; 2Jewish Gen Hosp, Montréal, Canada; 3McGill Univ Hlth Ctr, Montréal, Canada; and 4Univ de Montréal, Canada