HIV-1 antiretroviral drug therapy

EJ Arts, DJ Hazuda - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The most significant advance in the medical management of HIV-1 infection has been the
treatment of patients with antiviral drugs, which can suppress HIV-1 replication to …

The immune response during acute HIV-1 infection: clues for vaccine development

AJ McMichael, P Borrow, GD Tomaras… - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
The early immune response to HIV-1 infection is likely to be an important factor in
determining the clinical course of disease. Recent data indicate that the HIV-1 quasispecies …

Microbial translocation is a cause of systemic immune activation in chronic HIV infection

JM Brenchley, DA Price, TW Schacker, TE Asher… - Nature medicine, 2006 - nature.com
Chronic activation of the immune system is a hallmark of progressive HIV infection and
better predicts disease outcome than plasma viral load, yet its etiology remains obscure …

Animal models for HIV/AIDS research

T Hatziioannou, DT Evans - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
The AIDS pandemic continues to present us with unique scientific and public health
challenges. Although the development of effective antiretroviral therapy has been a major …

Emerging concepts in the immunopathogenesis of AIDS

DC Douek, M Roederer, RA Koup - Annual review of medicine, 2009 - annualreviews.org
There is an intense interplay between HIV and the immune system, and the literature is
replete with studies describing various immunological phenomena associated with HIV …

Targeting early infection to prevent HIV-1 mucosal transmission

AT Haase - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Measures to prevent sexual mucosal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1
are urgently needed to curb the growth of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) …

Penetration of tenofovir and emtricitabine in mucosal tissues: implications for prevention of HIV-1 transmission

KB Patterson, HA Prince, E Kraft, AJ Jenkins… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
A mainstay of strategies to prevent HIV-1 transmission is to use antiretroviral therapy (ART)
for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Critical to the design and interpretation of PrEP …

Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells

L de Witte, A Nabatov, M Pion, D Fluitsma… - Nature medicine, 2007 - nature.com
Abstract Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) is primarily transmitted sexually. Dendritic
cells (DCs) in the subepithelium transmit HIV-1 to T cells through the C-type lectin DC …

[HTML][HTML] HIV infection and the gastrointestinal immune system

JM Brenchley, DC Douek - Mucosal immunology, 2008 - Elsevier
There has recently been a resurgence of interest in the gastrointestinal pathology observed
in patients infected with HIV. The gastrointestinal tract is a major site of HIV replication …

Intravaginal gene silencing using biodegradable polymer nanoparticles densely loaded with small-interfering RNA

KA Woodrow, Y Cu, CJ Booth, JK Saucier-Sawyer… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Vaginal instillation of small-interfering RNA (siRNA) using liposomes has led to silencing of
endogenous genes in the genital tract and protection against challenge from infectious …