Exhausted B cells hamper immune response to HIV
Monday, July 14, 2008 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
Recent studies have shown that HIV causes a vigourous and prolonged immune response that eventually leads to the exhaustion of key immune system cells - CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells - that target HIV...
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