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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-8-21
pubmed:abstractText
This 4-year longitudinal study monitored the temporal association between the HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response and the control viremia in an individual infected with human immunodeficiency virus type (HIV-1). At the beginning of the study, this asymptomatic individual with a high CD4+ cell count showed no HIV-specific cytotoxic activity after polyclonal in vitro restimulation with autologous PHA-blasts, unlike most HIV-seropositive individuals. Anti-HIV CTLs were detected only in the last year of the study, both after in vitro restimulation and directly ex vivo. This was correlated with the inversion of the CD4+/CD8+ ratio, essentially due to increased numbers of CD8+CD28- T lymphocytes. The HIV-specific cytolytic activity was mediated by this CD28+CD28- subpopulation. The amount of HIV-1 provirus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) did not change during the study, but the HIV RNA in plasma increased and virus was isolated from PBMCs only at the time when HIV-specific CTL activity was detected. This suggests overall that the HIV-1 replication was low in this individual, with a transient increase that could have reached the threshold for CTL reactivation, and was perhaps controlled thereby.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0889-2229
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
497-506
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Delayed virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity in an HIV-infected individual with high CD4+ cell counts: correlations with various parameters of disease progression.
pubmed:affiliation
Unité d'Immunologie des Pathologies Infectieuses et Tumorales, INSERM U445, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't