B cell follicle sanctuary permits persistent productive simian immunodeficiency virus infection in elite controllers

Nature Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 132-139

  Fukazawa, Yoshinori ^a,b   Lum, Richard ^a,b   Okoye, Afam A ^a,b   Park, Haesun ^a,b   Matsuda, Kenta ^c   Bae, Jin Young ^a,b   Hagen, Shoko I ^a,b   Shoemaker, Rebecca ^d   Deleage, Claire ^d   Lucero, Carissa ^d   Morcock, David ^d   Swanson, Tonya ^a,b   Legasse, Alfred W ^a,b   Axthelm, Michael K ^a,b   Hesselgesser, Joseph ^e   Geleziunas, Romas ^e   Hirsch, Vanessa M ^c   Edlefsen, Paul T ^f   Piatak, Michael ^d   Estes, Jacob D ^d   Lifson, Jeffrey D ^d   Picker, Louis J ^a,b   more..

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^e GILEAD SCIENCES   (United States)

^f USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B CELL FOLLICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE COURSE; HELPER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; T CELL DEPLETION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MACACA MULATTA; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84922611542     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3781     Document Type: Article

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