Immune exhaustion in HIV infection
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 00:49
in Health & Medicine
As HIV disease progresses in a person infected with the HIV virus, a group of cells in the immune system, the CD8+ T lymphocytes, become 'exhausted,' losing many of their abilities to kill other cells infected by the virus. For many years scientists have debated whether this exhaustion of CD8+ T cells is the cause, or the consequence, of persistence of the HIV virus...
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