Worldwide, an increasing number of women use oral or injectable hormonal contraceptives.
However, inadequate information is available to aid women and health care professionals in …

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues its spread at a rate of over 15,000 new infections every
day. Sexual transmission of HIV-1 is the dominant mode of this pandemic spread. For the …

Inflammation is a known mechanism that facilitates HIV acquisition and the spread of
infection. In this study, we evaluated whether curcumin, a potent and safe anti-inflammatory …

Dendritic cells (DCs) contribute to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
transmission and dissemination by capturing and transporting infectious virus from the …

Chlamydia trachomatis causes a predominantly asymptomatic, but generally inflammatory,
genital infection that is associated with an increased risk for HIV acquisition. Endocervical …

During sexual intercourse, HIV-1 crosses epithelial barriers composing the genital mucosa,
a poorly understood feature that requires an HIV-1-infected cell vectoring efficient mucosal …

Oral transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in adult populations is rare.
However, HIV spread across fetal/neonatal oropharyngeal epithelia could be important in …

Although clinical and experimental evidence indicates that female sex hormones and
hormonal contraceptives regulate susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 …

The virological synapse (VS) is a tight adhesive junction between an HIV-infected cell and
an uninfected target cell, across which virus can be efficiently transferred from cell to cell in …

The mechanism of viral transmission across the mucosal barrier is poorly understood. Using
the endometrial epithelium-derived cell line HEC-1A, we found that the cells are capable of …