Features of 'CD4-exploders', HIV-positive patients with an optimal immune reconstitution after potent antiretroviral therapy

AIDS

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1609-1616

  Mussini, Cristina ^a   Pinti, Marcello ^a   Borghi, Vanni ^a   Nasi, Milena ^a   Amorico, Grazia ^b   Monterastelli, Elena ^a   Moretti, Laura ^a   Troiano, Leonarda ^a   Esposito, Roberto ^a   Cossarizza, Andrea ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c Section of General Pathology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Highly active antiretroviral therapy; HIV; T cell receptor rearrangement excision circles; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; DIDANOSINE; EFAVIRENZ; INDINAVIR; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; LAMIVUDINE; NELFINAVIR; NEVIRAPINE; RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DRUG POTENCY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; THYMUS;

ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; THYMUS GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037119046     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200208160-00006     Document Type: Article

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