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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Komal Sharma, Aman Sharma, Sunil K Arora

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Komal SharmaMolecular Immunology Laboratory, Department of Immunopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh 160012, India.ORCID 0009-0002-2107-5629
Aman SharmaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh 160012, India.
Sunil K AroraMolecular Immunology Laboratory, Department of Immunopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh 160012, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8294-5360

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introduction

methodsWe investigated the role of Mtb infection in regulating adaptive immune responses with reference to the expression of five immune checkpoint molecules (ICMs) in co-infected individuals in a cross-sectional study conducted on treatment-naïve human cohorts from North India, including PLWH, people with Mtb infection, people with HIV-Mtb co-infection, and healthy volunteers as controls.

resultsThe data revealed a significantly increased gene expression of TIM-3 (

conclusionsThese findings suggest that Mtb co-infection exacerbates immune exhaustion in co-infected individuals. Targeting ICMs with pharmacological immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) offers a promising approach for better clinical management of co-infected individuals.

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CD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCoinfectionHIV InfectionsMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisAdultAntigens, CDCross-Sectional StudiesCTLA-4 AntigenFemaleHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2HumansImmune Checkpoint ProteinsIndiaLymphocyte Activation Gene 3 ProteinAntigens, CDCTLA-4 AntigenHAVCR2 protein, humanHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2Immune Checkpoint ProteinsLag3 protein, humanLymphocyte Activation Gene 3 ProteinPDCD1 protein, humanProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorCTLA-4HIVHIV disease progressionHIV-TB co-infectionimmune checkpoint molecules (ICMs)LAG-3PD-1T-cell exhaustionTIGITTIM-3

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PMID40872312
PMCPMC12389345

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