Howard Eliot Gendelman

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience (PEN)

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Rodent models for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

Santhi Gorantla; Larisa Poluektova; Howard E. Gendelman (Profiled Authors: Howard Eliot Gendelman; Santhi Gorantla; Larisa Y Poluektova)

Trends in Neurosciences 2012;35(3):197-208.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) reflect the spectrum of neural impairments seen during chronic viral infection. Current research efforts focus on improving antiretroviral and adjunctive therapies, defining disease onset and progression, facilitating drug delivery, and halting neurodegeneration and viral resistance. Because HIV is species-specific, generating disease in small-animal models has proved challenging. After two decades of research, rodent HAND models now include those containing a human immune system. Antiviral responses, neuroinflammation and immunocyte blood-brain barrier (BBB) trafficking follow HIV infection in these rodent models. We review these and other rodent models of HAND and discuss their unmet potential in reflecting human pathobiology and in facilitating disease monitoring and therapeutic discoveries. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

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