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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
The reduction of neutrophils apoptosis is one of the main non-virological effects of protease inhibitor (PI) therapy. We explore here whether this may be due to the cross-inhibition of calpain, an important non-virological target of PI in vitro. We found that the high basal level of neutrophils apoptosis in AIDS patients is strictly related to an increased intracellular calpain activity. Both alterations disappear after PI treatment, with apoptosis and calpain going back to normal levels after 3 months of PI therapy, independently of a proficient antiviral effect. PI drugs exerted a similar antiapoptotic and anticalpain effects on neutrophils in ex vivo experiments: strikingly, the effects were mimicked by commercially available calpain inhibitors. This study shows, for the first time, that apoptosis of neutrophils in AIDS patients is mediated by calpain, and that neutrophil survival in PI treated AIDS patients is a non virological effect due to calpain inhibition.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1360-8185
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
781-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Benzoxazines, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Calpain, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Caspase 3, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Caspases, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-HIV Protease Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Indinavir, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Leukocytes, Mononuclear, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Neutrophils, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Oxazines, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex, pubmed-meshheading:16528469-Zidovudine
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
HIV protease inhibitor therapy reverses neutrophil apoptosis in AIDS patients by direct calpain inhibition.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, La Sapienza University, Viale del Policlinico Roma, 155, 00161, Rome, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't