The unenlarged lymph nodes of HIV-1-infected, asymptomatic patients with high CD4 T cell counts are sites for virus replication and CD4 T cell proliferation. The impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 949-959

  Tenner Racz, Klara ^b   Stellbrink, Hans Jürgen ^b   Van Lunzen, Jan ^b   Schneider, Claus ^c   Jacobs, Jan Peter ^a   Raschdorff, Birgit ^a   Großschupff, Gudrun ^a   Steinman, Ralph M ^d   Racz, Paul ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Carl Zeiss Company   (Germany)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DIDANOSINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD 20; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD 23; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD 57; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD 68; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD1A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD45; OKT 4; OKT 8; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; ZALCITABINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL LABELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HIV-1; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032536835     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.6.949     Document Type: Article

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