Active HIV in large white blood cells may drive cognitive impairment in infected mice

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) An experimental model of HIV infection in mice, developed by Mount Sinai researchers, has shown that HIV causes learning and memory dysfunction, a cognitive disease that is now observed in about half of HIV infected people that worsens with age, and is currently incurable.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news