Persons who inject drugs (PWID) retain functional NK cells, dendritic cell stimulation, and adaptive immune recall responses despite prolonged opioid use

C Tomescu, K Colon, P Smith, M Taylor… - Journal of leukocyte …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Previous literature suggests that acute opioid use results in the functional impairment of the
immune response, thereby decreasing resistance to viral infection. Here, we assessed if …

Identification of regulatory networks associated with anti-HIV/AIDS genes via integrated transcriptome, epigenome and proteome analyses

G Liu, C Zhang, L Shi, Z Zhu - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
There are individuals naturally resistant to HIV. To identify anti-HIV genes and regulatory
networks that enable the native ability to resist HIV, we reanalyzed the transcriptome of HIV …