Therapeutic vaccination targeting conserved regions of HIV - 1 combined with HIV
latency reactivation strategies may facilitate clearance of the viral reservoir in early - treated individuals.
Not exact matches
In healthy individuals HCMV establishes lifelong
latency, but in immunocompromised patients, viral
reactivation can lead to severe clinical symptoms, such as disseminated viral infection, blindness and potentially cancer.
«While HIV - 1
latency is likely to be a multifactorial process, we have shown that inhibiting the methylation of the provirus contributes to an almost complete
reactivation of latent HIV - 1,» said lead author Steven E. Kauder.
They also discovered that the
latency type and levels of spontaneous
reactivation indicated how effectively chemotherapy drugs reactivated the virus.
James S, Mahalingam R, Gilden D. Does apoptosis play a role in varicella zoster virus
latency and
reactivation?
Established a Jurkat cell model of HIV
latency (5A8 cells) that is inducible by T - cell receptor cross-linking and displays drug
reactivation profiles resembling that from resting CD4 T cells from aviremic patients.
Latency will develop in approximately eighty percent of infected cats and approximately fifty percent of latently infected cats will have spontaneous and stress - related
reactivation and shedding of the virus.