Published in AIDS Weekly, November 6th, 2006
Study 1: HIV/AIDS patients carrying the monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 mutated allele have a better response to protease inhibitor treatment.
"Antiretroviral drug efficacy has been widely studied in relation to viral factors. Mutations in the HIV coreceptors and their natural chemokines, however, may be critical in HIV infection and treatment response.
"We compared the efficacy of protease inhibitor (PI) treatment among PI-naive patients grouped according to whether they carried the chemokine CC motif receptor 2 (CCR-2) 64I and monocyte...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-11-06)
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