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Disease-Modifying Therapeutic Concepts for HIV in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
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Disease-Modifying Therapeutic Concepts for HIV in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Scott L. Butler, Hernan Valdez, Michael Westby, Manos Perros, Carl H. June, Jeffrey M. Jacobson, Yves Levy, David A. Cooper, Daniel Douek, Michael M. Lederman, …
JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES, v 58(3)
01 Nov 2011
PMID: 21792065
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https://doi.org/10.1097/qai.0b013e31822ccfccView
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Abstract

Immunology Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
Chronic HIV infection is associated with persistent immune activation and inflammation even among patients virologically suppressed on antiretroviral therapy for years. Chronic immune activation has been associated with poor outcomes-both AIDS-defining and non-AIDS-defining clinical events-and persistent CD4 T-cell depletion. The cause of chronic immune activation in well-controlled HIV infection is unknown. Proposed drivers include residual viral replication, microbial translocation, and coinfecting pathogens. Therapeutic interventions targeting immune activation are emerging, from approaches that interfere directly with activation and inflammatory pathways to those that prevent microbial translocation or decrease the availability of host target cells for the virus. In the context of the disappointing results of the interleukin-2 trials, the main challenges to developing these disease-modifying therapies include identifying an adequate target population and choosing surrogate endpoints that will provide positive proof-of-concept that the interventions will translate into long-term clinical benefit before embarking on large clinical endpoint trials.

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