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Critical Role of Nitric Oxide During the Apoptosis of Peripheral Blood Leukocytes from Patients with AIDS
Highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) increase the CD4+ cell count, but complete normalization of this parameter has not been obtained in some patients. As oxidative stress plays an important role during...
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Defective humoral responses and extensive intravascular apoptosis are associated with fatal outcome in Ebola virus-infected patients
Ebola virus is very pathogenic in humans. It induces an acute hemorrhagic fever that leads to death in about 70% of patients1. We compared the immune responses of patients who died from Ebola virus disease with t...
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Perturbation of CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell repertoires during progression to AIDS and regulation of the CD4+ repertoire during antiviral therapy
The T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) repertoire was studied longitudinally by analyzing the varying lengths of the beta chain CDR3 hypervariable region during the course of HIV-1 infection and following combinati...
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Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase and Proinflammatory Cytokine Expression by Human Keratinocytes during Acute Urticaria
IgE/allergen-dependent activation of skin mast cells is involved in acute urticaria and leads to their EL-4 release. Previously we have demonstrated in vitro the induction of the low-affinity receptor for IgE ...