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Functionally relevant changes occur in HIV-infected individuals' alveolar macrophages prior to the onset of respiratory disease.
AIDS (London, England) - 1 May 1997
Lipman M C, Johnson M A, Poulter L W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We have compared the phenotypic and functional changes found in alveolar macrophages recovered from the lungs of 39 HIV-positive individuals with no respiratory disease with those from 33 HIV-positive individuals with pneumonitis and 31 healthy controls. METHODS: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cell cytospin preparations were stained using monoclonal antibody immunoperoxidase and double immunofluorescence...
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