AIDS Weekly

Banking - Safety - "HIV Testing in BMT Donors and Recipients."

Cellular Immunity - Vectors - "Defective Retroviruses as Vaccine Vectors."

Drug Development - HIV Vaccines - "Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte and Helper T Cell Responses Following HIV Polynucleotide Vaccination."

Drug Development - HIV Vaccines - "The Immune Response to HIV-1 gp120 Induced by Nucleic Acid Immunization (NAI)."

Immunology - "Context-Dependent Peptide Presentation."

Pathogenesis - "Adoptive Cell-Mediated Immunity to the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Severe Combined Immunodeficient (SCID) Mice."

Pathogenesis - "Loss of CD28 Expression is Associated with Replicative Senescence of T Cells In Vitro and In Vivo."

Adverse Reactions - Scabies Therapy with Lidane - "Neurotoxic Reaction to Lindane in an HIV-Seropositive Patient: An Old Medication's New Problem."

Animal Studies - AZT Metabolism - "Comparative Metabolism of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythymidine in Cultured Hepatocytes from Rats, Dogs, Monkeys, and Humans."

Diagnosis - TB of the Foot in HIV Infection - "Tuberculosis of the Foot as the Initial Manifestation of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: A Report of Two Cases."

Gender Issues - Women and AIDS - "Whose Epidemic Is It? Reviewing the Literature on Women and AIDS."

HIV/Vaccine - European Collaborative Experiment - "Protection of Macaques Against Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection with Inactivated Vaccines: Comparison of Adjuvants, Doses and Challenge Viruses."

HIV/Vaccine - Genotypes and Phenotypes - "Neutralizing Antibodies Against Highly Cytopathic Zairian Human Immunodeficiency Type-1 Virus (HIV-1) NDK Are Present in Sera Outside Africa."

Immunology - Chronic Complement Activation - "Decreased Levels of Complement Receptor 1 (CD35) on B Lymphocytes in Persons with HIV Infection."

Immunology - Epidermal Langerhans Cells - "Functional Studies of Epidermal Langerhans Cells and Blood Monocytes in HIV-Infected Persons."

Immunology - Idiopathic CD4+ T-Lymphocytopenia - "Idiopathic CD4⁺ T-Lymphocytopenia: Analysis of a Patient with Selective IgA Deficiency and No Evidence of HIV Infection."

Immunology - Natural Killer Cells - "Evidence of a Selective Depletion of a CD16⁺ CD56⁺ CD8⁺ Natural Killer Cell Subset During HIV Infection."

Immunology - Pathogenesis of HIV - "Alterations of T-Cell Receptor Variable Region Expression in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease."

Kaposi's Sarcoma - Pathogenesis - "Inflammatory Cytokines Induce AIDS Kaposi's Sarcoma-Derived Spindle Cells to Produce and Release Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor and Enhance Kaposi's Sarcoma-Like Lesion Formation in Nude Mice. DOUBLE

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - Adolescents - "AIDS-Risk among Street Children and Youth: Implications for Intervention."

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - Students - "Student Opinion Leaders and HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Risk Behavior."

Neurology - AIDS Dementia Complex Diagnostics - "AIDS Dementia Complex: Evaluation with Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging."

Neurology - Astrocytes in HIV-1 Encephalitis - "A Regulatory Role for Astrocytes in HIV-1 Encephalitis: An Overexpression of Eicosanoids, Platelet-Activating Factor, and Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha by Activated HIV-1DASHSY

Neurology - TNF-Alpha in HIV-1 Encephalopathy - "In Vitro Evidence for a Dual Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Encephalopathy."

Pneumocystis Carinii - PCR Diagnostics - "The Use of a Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detecting Pneumocystis carinii from Lung and Blood in Rat and Human Infection."

Screening - Saliva-Based Testing - "Use of Saliva as an Alternative to Serum for HIV Screening in Africa."

Therapy - Protease Inhibitor AG1284 - "Formulation Development of An Oral Dosage Form for an HIV Protease Inhibitor, AG1284."