Ongoing research investigating how HIV remains as a latent reservoir in resting T helper cells to ensure viral persistence in patients that have undergone treatment with highly active antiretroviral ...

Each summer three undergraduate students work with Dr. Anding Shen investigating the roles of endothelial cells on HIV infection and latency formation in resting T helper cells. <p>In many patients ...

Without CD4 T helper cells, the immune system cannot recognize and coordinate a defensive response to diseases like HIV. This is when a person is said to be immunocompromised. This article ...

In spite of seeming to be just 'bystander cells'that escape infection, many CD4 T cells are killed by the HIV virus, the reason for which researchers seem to have discovered at last. In spite of ...

These include various serologic HIV-1 p24 antigen detection methods (including an amplification-boosted ELISA) 15, qualitative and quantitative cell culture methods, and enumeration of T-helper ...

Two research teams led by Warner Greene at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco have demonstrated that the vast majority of CD4 T cells in lymphoid tissues, despite their ability to resist full ...