CCR5 as a coreceptor for human immunodeficiency virus and simian immunodeficiency viruses: a prototypic love-hate affair

AJ Jasinska, I Pandrea, C Apetrei - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
CCR5, a chemokine receptor central for orchestrating lymphocyte/cell migration to the sites
of inflammation and to the immunosurveillance, is involved in the pathogenesis of a wide …

Animal models for HIV cure research

BB Policicchio, I Pandrea, C Apetrei - Frontiers in immunology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The HIV-1/AIDS pandemic continues to spread unabated worldwide, and no vaccine exists
within our grasp. Effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been developed, but ART cannot …

Inflammatory monocytes expressing tissue factor drive SIV and HIV coagulopathy

ME Schechter, BB Andrade, T He, GH Richter… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
In HIV infection, persistent inflammation despite effective antiretroviral therapy is linked to
increased risk of noninfectious chronic complications such as cardiovascular and …

The genome of the vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus)

WC Warren, AJ Jasinska, R García-Pérez… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
We describe a genome reference of the African green monkey or vervet (Chlorocebus
aethiops). This member of the Old World monkey (OWM) superfamily is uniquely valuable for …

Ancient hybridization and strong adaptation to viruses across African vervet monkey populations

H Svardal, AJ Jasinska, C Apetrei, G Coppola… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Vervet monkeys are among the most widely distributed nonhuman primates, show
considerable phenotypic diversity, and have long been an important biomedical model for a …

The Hitchhiker Guide to CD4+ T-Cell Depletion in Lentiviral Infection. A Critical Review of the Dynamics of the CD4+ T Cells in SIV and HIV Infection

Q Le Hingrat, I Sereti, AL Landay, I Pandrea… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
CD4+ T-cell depletion is pathognomonic for AIDS in both HIV and simian immunodeficiency
virus (SIV) infections. It occurs early, is massive at mucosal sites, and is not entirely reverted …

Non-human primates in HIV research: Achievements, limits and alternatives

T Garcia-Tellez, N Huot, MJ Ploquin, P Rascle… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
An ideal model for HIV-1 research is still unavailable. However, infection of non-human
primates (NHP), such as macaques, with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) recapitulates …

Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in vervet monkeys

AJ Jasinska, A Haghani, JA Zoller, CZ Li, A Arneson… - GeroScience, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation-based biomarkers of aging have been developed for many mammals but
not yet for the vervet monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), which is a valuable non-human …

Morphological variation in the genus Chlorocebus: Ecogeographic and anthropogenically mediated variation in body mass, postcranial morphology, and growth

TR Turner, CA Schmitt, JD Cramer… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Direct comparative work in morphology and growth on widely dispersed wild
primate taxa is rarely accomplished, yet critical to understanding ecogeographic variation …

Antibiotic and antiinflammatory therapy transiently reduces inflammation and hypercoagulation in acutely SIV-infected pigtailed macaques

I Pandrea, C Xu, JL Stock, DN Frank, D Ma… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Increased chronic immune activation and inflammation are hallmarks of HIV/SIV infection
and are highly correlated with progression to AIDS and development of non-AIDS …