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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Immunol. 2015 Oct 2;195(10):4884–4891. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1501194

Figure 5. Increased SIV levels in lung tissues of infected rhesus macaques correlate with increased IM and blood monocyte turnover rates but not with SIV plasma viral loads (pVL).

Figure 5

Lung tissues were collected from SIV-infected macaques at different stages of disease and quantitated for SIV DNA and RNA. (A) The number of SIV DNA copy equivalents in lung tissue directly correlated with IM turnover in SIV-infected macaques (n=14). (B) SIV DNA copy numbers directly correlated with SIV RNA copy numbers in the lungs of SIV-infected macaques (n=10). (C) SIV DNA copy numbers in lung did not correlate with the pVL in SIV-infected macaques (n=12). Spearman’s correlation analyses were applied for statistical analysis.