Assessment of the HIV-1 reservoir in CD4+ regulatory T cells by a Droplet Digital PCR based approach

Virus Research

Volumn 240, Issue , 2017, Pages 107-111

  Dunay, Gábor Artúr ^a,b,c   Solomatina, Anastasia ^b,c   Kummer, Silke ^b   Hüfner, Anja ^b   Bialek, Julia Katharina ^a   Eberhard, Johanna Maria ^b,c   Tolosa, Eva ^b   Hauber, Joachim ^a,c   Schulze zur Wiesch, Julian ^b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Droplet Digital PCR; HIV reservoir; Tcm; Tem; Total HIV DNA; Treg; Viral outgrowth assay

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RO ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; VIRUS DNA; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE BURDEN; DROPLET DIGITAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MEMORY CELL; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS REPLICATION; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 85028981046     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.07.008     Document Type: Article

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