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ReviewCurrent HIV/AIDS reports2006

Decimated or missing in action: CD4+ T cells as targets and effectors in the pathogenesis of primary HIV infection.

Anthony D Kelleher, John J Zaunders

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Review in Current HIV/AIDS reports, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Cerebral Toxoplasmosis in a Patient with AIDS on F-18 FDG PET/CT.Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2010
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  11. Positron emission tomography in patients suffering from HIV-1 infection.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anthony D KelleherImmunovirology and Pathogenesis Program, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of North South Wales, Level 2, 376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, Australia. t.kelleher@cfi.unsw.edu.au
John J Zaunders

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HIV infection provides a unique challenge to the immune system. CD4+ T cells are targets of infection, whereas effective anti-HIV CD4+ T-cell responses are essential for sustained viral control. There is increasing evidence of preferential depletion of certain subsets of CD4+ T cells. Studies of tissues have demonstrated preferential depletion of CD4+ T cells from gastrointestinal lymphoid tissue (GALT). Simian immunodeficiency virus infection of macaques results in extensive depletion of CD4+ memory T cells from GALT within weeks of infection. Other macaque studies suggest this rapid, profound depletion is generalized across all lymphoid tissue. Although these models provide insight into possible pathogenic processes, these results cannot be directly extrapolated to HIV infection in humans. Although there is depletion of CD4+ T cell memory cells early in HIV infection, the mechanism of this depletion appears to be related to increased cell turnover, chronicity of antigen exposure, and ineffective production of central memory CD4+ T cells rather than only direct cell depletion.

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CD4 AntigensGastrointestinal TractHIV InfectionsHumansLymphoid TissueT-LymphocytesCD4 Antigens

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