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HIV and the brain
1989 – 1992 St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London, Prof J Weber
Use of human brain cell cultures as a test-tube model of AIDS infection of the central nervous system, and use of cell cultures to look for new anti-AIDS drugs. An alternative to experiments carried out on non-human primates such as macaques and baboons.