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Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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PQBP1 functions in brain microglia, which corresponds to dendritic cells or a part of macrophage regulating innate immune system, as an intracellular receptor for HIV cDNA and Tau proteins similarly.

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Department of Neuropathology, TMDU

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