Getting the “kill” into “shock and kill”: strategies to eliminate latent HIV

Y Kim, JL Anderson, SR Lewin - Cell host & microbe, 2018 - cell.com
Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART), there is currently no HIV cure and
treatment is life long. HIV persists during ART due to long-lived and proliferating latently …

Targeting the latent reservoir for HIV-1

S Sengupta, RF Siliciano - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy can effectively block HIV-1 replication and prevent or reverse
immunodeficiency in HIV-1-infected individuals. However, viral replication resumes within …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak

C Wenham, J Smith, R Morgan - The lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appears no different. We are not
aware of any gender analysis of the outbreak by global health institutions or governments in …

Early intervention with 3BNC117 and romidepsin at antiretroviral treatment initiation in people with HIV-1: a phase 1b/2a, randomized trial

JD Gunst, MH Pahus, M Rosás-Umbert, IN Lu… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Attempts to reduce the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reservoir and induce
antiretroviral therapy (ART)-free virologic control have largely been unsuccessful. In this …

Systemic HIV and SIV latency reversal via non-canonical NF-κB signalling in vivo

CC Nixon, M Mavigner, GC Sampey, AD Brooks… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Long-lasting, latently infected resting CD4+ T cells are the greatest obstacle to obtaining a
cure for HIV infection, as these cells can persist despite decades of treatment with …

AZD5582 plus SIV-specific antibodies reduce lymph node viral reservoirs in antiretroviral therapy-suppressed macaques

A Dashti, S Sukkestad, AM Horner, M Neja, Z Siddiqi… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The main barrier to HIV cure is a persistent reservoir of latently infected CD4+ T cells
harboring replication-competent provirus that fuels rebound viremia upon antiretroviral …

The role of nanotechnology in the treatment of viral infections

L Singh, HG Kruger, GEM Maguire… - Therapeutic …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Infectious diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, with viruses in particular
making global impact on healthcare and socioeconomic development. In addition, the rapid …

International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016

SG Deeks, SR Lewin, AL Ross, J Ananworanich… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy is not curative. Given the challenges in providing lifelong therapy to a
global population of more than 35 million people living with HIV, there is intense interest in …

The Depsipeptide Romidepsin Reverses HIV-1 Latency In Vivo

OS Søgaard, ME Graversen, S Leth, R Olesen… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Pharmacologically-induced activation of replication competent proviruses from latency in the
presence of antiretroviral treatment (ART) has been proposed as a step towards curing HIV …

The HIV reservoir in monocytes and macrophages

ME Wong, A Jaworowski, AC Hearps - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In people living with HIV (PLWH) who are failing or unable to access combination
antiretroviral therapy (cART), monocytes and macrophages are important drivers of …