| CAHR Abstracts 2002 |
BASIC SCIENCES / SCIENCES FONDAMENTALES
POSTER PRESENTATIONS/ PRÉSENTATIONS D’AFFICHE
ADDITIONAL POSTERS
[146P]
ANTIRETROVIRAL PROTEASE INHIBITORS(PI): EFFECTS ON 3T3-L1 ADIPOCYTE AND L6 MYOTUBE
DIFFERENTIATION IN VITRO
SP Colby-Germinario1, A Antonecchia2, L
Chalifour1, RJ Germinario1,3,4
1Lady Davis Institute SMBD Jewish General Hospital; 2Department
of Biochemistry, Concordia University; 3McGill AIDS Centre, SMBD
Jewish General Hospital; 4Department of Biology, Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec
[147P]
ROLE OF HIV VIREMIA AND T-LYMPHOPENIA IN THE REGULATION OF PLASMA INTERLEUKIN-7
(IL-7) LEVELS
MR Boulassel1, GHR Smith1, M Klein1,
J MacLeod1, N Gilmore1, S Bruce1, PR Sekaly2,
RG Lalonde1, JP Routy1
1Immunodeficiency Service, McGill University Health Centre, Royal
Victoria Hospital, McGill University; 2Department of Immunology,
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
[148P] ANALYSIS OF PLASMA INTERLEUKIN-7
(IL-7) LEVELS IN ADVANCED HIV-PATIENTS TREATED WITH KALETRA/SAQUINAVIR CONTAINING
REGIMEN: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
MR Boulassel, GHR Smith, M Klein, N Gilmore, S Bruce, R Leblanc,
J MacLeod, RG Lalonde, JP Routy
Immunodeficiency Service, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital,
Montreal, Quebec
[149P] EFFECT
OF NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS ON CYTOCHROME P-450 3A4-MEDIATED METABOLISM
BC Foster1,2, CE Drouin2, S Vandenhoek2,
A Krantis2
1Office of Science, Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Canada;
2Centre for Research in Biopharmaceuticals, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario
[150P] DEVELOPMENT OF A SEQUENCE-BASED
TYPING METHOD TO TYPE HIV VIRAL RNA FROM SERUM SAMPLES
Xiaojuan Mao1, Ma Luo1, John Rutherford1,
Suzie Ramdahin1, Tammy Stuart1, Keith R Fowke1,
Joanne Embree1, Francis A Plummer1,2
1Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
Manitoba; 2National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba
[151P] FUNCTIONAL
EXPRESSION OF P-GLYCOPROTEIN (P-gp) IN PRIMARY RAT ASTROCYTE CULTURES: RELEVANCE
TO THE TREATMENT OF HIV INFECTION IN THE BRAIN
PT Ronaldson, S Dallas, M Piquette-Miller, R Bendayan
Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
[152P] MODELLING AND ASSESSMENT OF THERAPEUTIC
STRATEGIES FOR HIV INFECTION
AB Gumel1, Xue-Wu Zhang1, PN Shivakumar1,
ML Garba2, Beni M Sahai3,4
Departments of 1Mathematics and 3Medical Microbiology,
University of Manitoba; 2Center for HIV/STDs and Infectious Diseases,
University of North Carolina; 4Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Winnipeg,
Manitoba