How HIV Cripples Immune Cells

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

In order to be able to ward off disease pathogens, immune cells must be mobile and be able to establish contact with each other. Scientists have discovered a mechanism in an animal model revealing how HIV, the AIDS pathogen, cripples immune cells: Cell mobility is inhibited by the HIV Nef protein.

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