ReviewViruses2023
Beyond the Syndemic of Opioid Use Disorders and HIV: The Impact of Opioids on Viral Reservoirs.
Review in Viruses, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mapping opioid exposure through prescription data and postmortem analysis of opioid drugs in multiple tissues.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Article
- Prescription opioid use and opioid use disorder among older adults with HIV in the USA from 2008 to 2021: a retrospective repeated cross-sectional study.The Lancet. Primary care · 2025Article
- Medications for opioid use disorder shape immune responses during chronic HIV infection.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
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- HIV-1 Tat Impairment of Mitochondrial Respiration via Complexes I and II Can Be Ameliorated by Allopregnanolone in Opioid-Exposed or Opioid-Naïve Cells and Mice.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Interactive effects of morphine and the HIV integrase inhibitor, cabotegravir, in male and female mice.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2025Article
- Neurological impact of HIV/AIDS and substance use alters brain function and structure.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Review
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8 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
People with HIV are more likely to have opioid use disorder and to be prescribed opioids for chronic pain than the general population; however, the effects of opioids on the immune system and HIV persistence have not been fully elucidated. Opioids may affect HIV reservoirs during their establishment, maintenance, and reactivation by enhancing HIV infectivity and replication due to upregulation of co-receptors and impairment of innate antiviral responses. Opioids may also modulate immune cell functioning and microbial translocation and can reverse viral latency. In this review, we summarize the current findings for and against the modulating effects of opioids on HIV cellular and anatomical reservoirs, highlighting the current limitations that affect in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo studies in the field. We propose further research targets and potential strategies to approach this topic.
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