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Epithelial apoptosis in the gastro-intestinal tract is normally restricted to superficial cells but in pathological states of inflammation or infection, apoptotic cell death can be far more expansive.
Indeed, unlike the atrophy and cell-death of infected central nervous system [ 1 ] , cardiac [ 2 ] , or gastro-intestinal [ 3 ] parenchyma, aberrant cell-cycle progression of infected renal epithelium is a defining feature of HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) [ 4 5 ] . Yet, the mechanisms are largely unknown whereby HIV-1 subverts the cell-cycle controls that normally maintain renal epithelial in G 0 . Nonetheless, several observations from in vitro and in vivo models of HIVAN pathogenesis suggest that HIV-1 expression itself may be a key pathogenic factor.