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Genetic analysis of cytokine promoters in nonhuman primates: implications for Th1/Th2 profile characteristics and SIV disease pathogenesis.
Clinical & developmental immunology - 1 Mar 2004
Bostik Pavel, Watkins Melanie, Villinger Francois, Ansari Aftab A
Abstract excerpt
The shift from a predominant synthesis of prototype Th1 cytokines to Th2 or Th0 type of cytokines by antigen activated PBMC's from HIV infected humans and SIV infected disease susceptible rhesus macaques (RM) has been shown to be associated with disease progression. Paradoxically, antigen activated PBMC's from sooty mangabeys (SM), which are naturally infected with SIV and are disease resistant despite high viral...
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