Conference Coverage (Retrovirus)
HIV Makes CD8+ T Cells Old Before Their Time
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 10th, 1997
But early intervention with therapies including protease inhibitors may prevent this untimely aging.
CD8+ T cells attack viral infections by secreting soluble antiviral factors and by killing virus-infected cells directly.
Long-term nonprogressors enrolled in the MACS study - a longitudinal study of a large cohort of men who have sex with men - retain intact CD8+ lymphocyte responses. Most of the HIV+ MACS participants, however,...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-03-10)
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