Poor Immune Reconstitution in HIV-Infected Patients Associates with High Percentage of Regulatory CD4+ T Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Horta, Ana ^a,b,c   Nobrega, Claudia ^a,b   Amorim Machado, Pedro ^a,b   Coutinho Teixeira, Vitor ^a,b   Barreira Silva, Palmira ^a,b   Boavida, Susana ^c   Costa, Patrício ^a,b   Sarmento Castro, Rui ^a,b,c   Castro, António Gil ^a,b   Correia Neves, Margarida ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; OX40 LIGAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTUGAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84874234588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057336     Document Type: Article

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