Autoimmunity and HIV/simian immunodeficiency virus infection: A two edged sword
Aftab A Ansari1, Kovit Pattanapanyasat, Lara E Pereira
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Abstract:
The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the spectrum of autoimmune responses that we have so far characterized in the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected disease susceptible rhesus macaques, the potential role of the lymphopenic state for the generation of the autoimmune response and the important new finding that such autoimmune response in fact can serve to provide both clinical benefit and clinical disease depending on the stage of the disease and the nature of the host proteins that are recognized during this process.
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