CCR5 as a natural and modulated target for inhibition of HIV

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-68

  Burke, Bryan P ^a   Boyd, Maureen P ^a   Impey, Helen ^a   Breton, Louis R ^a   Bartlett, Jeffrey S ^a   Symonds, Geoff P ^a   Hütter, Gero ^b,c  

^a Calimmune Australia Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Cellex Patient Treatment GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

C46; CCR5; Gene therapy; HIV; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; APLASIA; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; COMORBIDITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; GENETIC THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, CCR5; RECEPTORS, HIV; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 84891589340     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6010054     Document Type: Article

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