AIDS and HIV Immunotherapy

Healthy Patients With Low CD4 Counts May Retain High Natural Killer Cell Function

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 14th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - HIV patients who remain relatively healthy despite clinical signs of advanced disease may have enhanced nonspecific immune function, according to researchers in the United States.

Dr. Gail Ironson and colleagues at the University of Miami and the University of California at Los Angeles investigated the possibility of "an immune component that protects a relatively rare group of HIV-infected people with very low CD4 cell counts ({{<=}}50 x 10⁶/l) who have prolonged asymptomatic periods."

Natural killer (NK) cell activity may help make up for CD4 cell deficiencies in asymptomatic patients, the...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-01-14)

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