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T-cell signalling in antiretroviral-treated, aviraemic HIV-1-positive individuals is present in a raised state of basal activation that contributes to T-cell hyporesponsiveness.
AIDS (London, England) - 23 Oct 2011
Downey Jocelyn S, Attaf Meriem, Moyle Graeme, Gazzard Brian, Gotch Frances, Imami Nesrina
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Successful antiretroviral therapy (ART) suppresses plasma HIV-1 RNA below detection limits, reducing the chronic insult to the immune systems of infected individuals and supporting a degree of immunological recovery. However, the surface phenotypic profile of T cells in ART-treated patients does not resemble that of healthy, uninfected individuals, but rather shows upregulation of proteins associated...
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