HIV infection

LG Bekker, C Beyrer, N Mgodi, SR Lewin… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The AIDS epidemic has been a global public health issue for more than 40 years and has
resulted in~ 40 million deaths. AIDS is caused by the retrovirus, HIV-1, which is transmitted …

Recommendations for measuring HIV reservoir size in cure-directed clinical trials

M Abdel-Mohsen, D Richman, RF Siliciano… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic strategies are being clinically tested either to eradicate latent HIV reservoirs or
to achieve virologic control in the absence of antiretroviral therapy. Attaining this goal will …

HIV persists throughout deep tissues with repopulation from multiple anatomical sources

A Chaillon, S Gianella, S Dellicour… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND Understanding HIV dynamics across the human body is important for cure
efforts. This goal has been hampered by technical difficulties and the challenge of obtaining …

CD4+ T‐cell depletion in HIV infection: mechanisms of immunological failure

AA Okoye, LJ Picker - Immunological reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The hallmark of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pathogenesis is a progressive
depletion of CD 4+ T‐cell populations in close association with progressive impairment of …

Past, present and future: 30 years of HIV research

F Barré-Sinoussi, AL Ross, JF Delfraissy - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the study that first reported the
isolation of HIV-1. In this Timeline article, we provide a historical perspective of some of the …

Follicular helper T cells serve as the major CD4 T cell compartment for HIV-1 infection, replication, and production

M Perreau, AL Savoye, E De Crignis… - Journal of Experimental …, 2013 - rupress.org
In the present study, we have investigated the distribution of HIV-specific and HIV-infected
CD4 T cells within different populations of memory CD4 T cells isolated from lymph nodes of …

HIV‐associated chronic immune activation

M Paiardini, M Müller‐Trutwin - Immunological reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Systemic chronic immune activation is considered today as the driving force of CD 4+ T‐cell
depletion and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A residual chronic immune …

Tissue reservoirs of HIV

JK Wong, SA Yukl - Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2016 - journals.lww.com
The retention of infected cells in a wide variety of tissues, often with distinct viral and cellular
characteristics, underscores the importance of studying tissue reservoirs in the development …

Dissecting how CD4 T cells are lost during HIV infection

G Doitsh, WC Greene - Cell host & microbe, 2016 - cell.com
Although the replicative life cycle of HIV within CD4 T cells is understood in molecular detail,
less is known about how this human retrovirus promotes the loss of CD4 T lymphocytes. It is …

Multiple organ infection and the pathogenesis of SARS

J Gu, E Gong, B Zhang, J Zheng, Z Gao… - The Journal of …, 2005 - rupress.org
After> 8,000 infections and> 700 deaths worldwide, the pathogenesis of the new infectious
disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), remains poorly understood. We …