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HIV infection and SLE: their pathogenic relationship
I Sekigawa1, H Kaneko, T Hishikawa
1Department of Medicine, Juntendo University, Izu-Nagaoka Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
|April 16, 1998
Abstract:
Retroviruses have repeatedly been suggested as a possible trigger mechanism for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We review the role of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 envelope glycoprotein (gp120) in the induction of immune dysregulation including autoimmunity in HIV-1 infection, and discuss the possible relationship between HIV and SLE in the retroviral etiology.