Loyda M Melendez Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Viral pathogenesis, Neuroscience, Proteomics, Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Medical Zoology, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Krystal Colon, Fabian Vazquez-Santiago, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Gisela Delgado, Steven E Massey, Valerie Wojna,Richard J Noel Jr and Loyda M Melendez
Abstract
Objective: HIV-1 variants with different tropisms are associated with various neuropathologies. This study intends to determine if this correlation is determined by unique viral env sequences. We hypothesize that HIV-1 envelope gene sequence changes are associated with cognition status
Methods: Viral RNA was extracted... view moreĀ»