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Session 69  Poster Abstracts
Virologic Parameters in NeuroAIDS
Tuesday, 1-4 pm
Room: Hall D
      397 Tissue-specific Adaptive Changes in R5X4 HIV-1 Env Variants Compartmentalized in Brain and Lymphoid Tissues of Individuals with AIDS
Lachlan Gray*1,2, M Churchill1, D Cowley1,3, J Sterjovski1,3, A Ellett1, N Saksena4, P Poumbourios1, S Wesselingh1,2,3, D Gabuzda5,6, and P Gorry1,2,3
1Burnet Inst, Melbourne, Australia; 2Univ of Melbourne, Australia; 3Monash Univ, Melbourne, Australia; 4Westmead Millenium Inst, Australia; 5Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA, US; and 6Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA, US
      398 Low CD4 Dependence and High Avidity for CD4 Determine Macrophage Tropism, Increased Fusogenicity and Reduced Sensitivity to Fusion and Other Entry Inhibitors of HIV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins from Brain Tissue and Brain-derived Isolates
F Rossi, B Querido, D Nimmagadda, S Navas-Martin, and Julio Martin-Garcia*
Drexel Univ Coll of Med, Philadelphia, PA, US
      399 Bioinformatic Predictors of Co-receptor Usage Underestimate the Frequency of R5X4 HIV-1 in Brain and Other Tissues
Megan Mefford*1,2, P Gorry3, K Kunstman4, S Wolinsky4, and D Gabuzda1,2
1Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA, US; 2Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA, US; 3Macfarlane Burnet Inst for Med Res and Publ Hlth, Melbourne, Australia; and 4Feinberg Sch of Med, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL, US
      400 Compartmentalization and Evolutionary Dynamics of HIV-1 NEF Sequences in the Brain of 5 Individuals
Tulio de Oliveira*1, S Lamers2, M Salemi3, and M McGrath4
1South African Natl BioInformatics Inst, Univ of Western Cape; 2BioinfoExperts, FL, US; 3Univ of Florida Gainsville, US; and 4Univ of California, San Francisco, US
      401 Validation of a V3-based Genetic Biomarker of HIV-1 Neurovirulence
Satish Pillai*1,2, W Pasutti1, A McCutchan3, C Marra4, D Clifford5, B Gelman6, D Simpson7, J McArthur8, I Grant3, and J Wong1,2
1VAMC, San Francisco, CA, US; 2Univ of California, San Francisco, US; 3Univ of California, San Diego, US; 4Univ of Washington, Seattle, US; 5Washington Univ, St Louis, MO, US; 6Univ of Texas Med Branch, Galveston, US; 7Mt Sinai Sch of Med, New York, NY, US; and 8Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, US
      402 Differential Induction of IDO and the Kynurenine Pathway by Neurotropic and Non-Neurotropic Viruses
Apsara Kandanearatchi*1, J Wilkinson1, J Zaunder1, L Pemberton1, S Maddocks2, A Cunningham2, and B Brew1
1Ctr for Immunology, St Vincent`s Hosp, Univ of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and 2Millenium Inst, Univ of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
      403 The Neurotrophins NGF, BDNF, and proNGF Induce Enhancement of HIV-1 Replication in Primary Human Macrophages
Thiago Souza*1,2, D Rodrigues1, E Araujo3, C Fontes2, and D Bou-Habib1
1Oswaldo Cruz Fndn, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2Federal Univ of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and 3Fluminense Federal Univ, Niteroi, Brazil
    404a The Spectrum of HIV-1-associated Neurocognitive Diagnoses Represents a Continuum of Circulating HIV DNA Levels
Bruce Shiramizu*1, A Williams2, C Shikuma1, and V Valcour1
1Hawaii AIDS Clinical Res Prgm, John A Burns Sch of Med, Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, US and 2Kaiser Fndn Hosp, Ctr for Hlth Res, Honolulu, Hawaii, US
    404b HIV Subtype D Is Associated with a Higher Risk for Dementia than Subtype A in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ned Sacktor*1, N Nakasujja2, M Rezapour1, R Skolasky1, S Musisi2, E Katabira2, K Robertson3, D Clifford4, O Laeyendecker1, and T Quinn1
1Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, US; 2Makerere Univ, Kampala, Uganda; 3Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US; and 4Washington Univ, St Louis, MO, US