ArticleVirus genes2005
A point of view: HIV-1/AIDS is an allergy but CpG ODN treatments may inhibit virus replication and reactivate the adaptive immunity--hypothesis and implications.
Article in Virus genes, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Recent insights into the role of Toll-like receptors in viral infection.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2010Review
- Review
- The molecular mechanism of human resistance to HIV-1 infection in persistently infected individuals--a review, hypothesis and implications.Virus genes · 2005Review
- Anti-SARS-CoV immunity induced by a novel CpG oligodeoxynucleotide.Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.)Article
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Abstract
Reevaluation of the increase in the levels of IgE and IL-4 in sera of HIV-1 infected and AIDS patients led to the suggestion that AIDS resembles allergy. Studies on the properties of the viral shed gp120 revealed that it resemble environmental allergens in their ability to induce hematopoietic cells to release large amounts of Th2 cytokines, inhibitors of the patients adaptive immune response. Yet, induction of TLR9+ plasmacytoid DCs by CpG ODNs cause the release of type I interferons, inhibitors of HIV-1 replication and IL-4 release from hematopoietic cells. CpG ODN binding to TLR+ B cells inhibits IgE synthesis and reactivates the failing adaptive immunity. The possible use of CpG ODNs as treatment to patients is discussed.
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