Background: The effects of animal assisted therapy on patients with dementia were investigated through the use of mental state batteries.

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To investigate a non-RI test which is equivalent to the reverse transcriptase inhibiting antibody test, a reverse transcriptase inhibiting antibody was compared to the absolute number of CD-4 or CD-8 cells or CD-4/-8 ratio and also to photodensitometric analysis for western blotting. There is no correlation of the reverse transcriptase with any test for cell numbers and their ratio. In photodensitometry, relative units of anti-p65 and anti-p51 were compared with reverse transcriptase inhibiting antibody. The reverse transcriptase inhibiting antibody showed a higher correlation to the relative unit of p65 antibodies than that of p51 antibodies. The photodensitometric analysis of western blotting for a serum test may be a possible method to find a prognostic marker in HIV-1 infection.

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Sensitive reverse transcriptase assay was applied to human immunodeficiency virus type 2. The kinetics of this assay, stability of the enzyme and the effect of BSA to this assay indicated that the condition of this assay should be 37 degrees C in reaction temperature. The sensitivity of this assay increased by adding more than 10 micrograms/ml of BSA. The sensitivity of this assay is at least four times more than that of CPE assay using Molt-4 cell. Other HIV-2 isolate, LAV-2 in culture medium was also detectable in this condition. Moreover reverse transcriptase inhibiting antibody that specifically inhibits HIV-2 reverse transcriptase was found by this assay.