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Quantitative and qualitative abnormalities in HIV-1-specific T cells
N Watanabe1, M Tomizawa, A Tachikawa-Kawana
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Objective:
To assess the characteristics of CD4 and CD8 T cells specific for HIV-1 and cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigens in untreated and treated HIV-1-infected patients.
Methods:
Antigen-specific T cell frequencies were determined by flow cytometric detection of antigen-induced intracellular cytokines.
Results:
In untreated patients, HIV-1-specific CD4 T cell counts in peripheral blood were less than one tenth of CMV-specific CD4 T cell counts, while the number of specific CD8 T cells was approximately the same for both HIV-1 and CMV. In patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for less than 1.5 years, HIV-1-specific CD4 and CD8T cell counts were significantly lower than those in untreated patients. Perforin expression in HIV-1-specific CD8 T cells was significantly lower than that in CMV-specific CD8 T cells.
Conclusion:
These data indicate that HIV-1-specific T cells in HIV-1-infected patients have quantitative and qualitative abnormalities.
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