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Analysis of telomere length and thymic output in fast and slow/non-progressors with HIV infection.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Feb 2000
Richardson M W, Sverstiuk A, Hendel H, Cheung T W, Zagury J F, Rappaport J
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There are two models for CD4+ T-cell depletion leading to AIDS: a kinetic model and an immune suppression model. In the kinetic model, direct cell killing due to viral replication results in a continuous demand for CD4+ T-cells, which eventually exhausts their capacity for renewal by proliferative mechanisms. In the immune suppression model, CD4+ T-cell decline is due to an indirect global inhibitory effect of...
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