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Treated HIV Infection Alters Phenotype but Not HIV-Specific Function of Peripheral Blood Natural Killer Cells.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2020
Zhao Nancy Q, Ferreira Anne-Maud, Grant Philip M, Holmes Susan, Blish Catherine A
Abstract excerpt
Natural killer (NK) cells are the predominant antiviral cells of the innate immune system, and may play an important role in acquisition and disease progression of HIV. While untreated HIV infection is associated with distinct alterations in the peripheral blood NK cell repertoire, less is known about how NK phenotype is altered in the setting of long-term viral suppression with antiretroviral therapy (ART), as...
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