HIV/AIDS

Reports outline HIV/AIDS study findings from Rockefeller University

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 4th, 2009

According to a study from the United States, "Antibodies to conserved epitopes on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surface protein gp140 can protect against infection in non-human primates, and some infected individuals show high titres of broadly neutralizing immunoglobulin (Ig)G antibodies in their serum. However, little is known about the specificity and activity of these antibodies(1-3)."

"To characterize the memory antibody responses to HIV, we cloned 502 antibodies from HIV envelope-binding memory B cells from six HIV-infected patients with broadly neutralizing antibodies and low to intermediate viral loads. We show that in these patients, the B-cell memory...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-05-04)

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