2017
Depression and Anxiety are Common in Acute HIV Infection and Associate with Plasma Immune Activation
Hellmuth J, Colby D, Valcour V, Suttichom D, Spudich S, Ananworanich J, Prueksakaew P, Sailasuta N, Allen I, Jagodzinski LL, Slike B, Ochi D, Paul R, on behalf of the RV254/SEARCH 010 Study Group. Depression and Anxiety are Common in Acute HIV Infection and Associate with Plasma Immune Activation. AIDS And Behavior 2017, 21: 3238-3246. PMID: 28484888, PMCID: PMC5830305, DOI: 10.1007/s10461-017-1788-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute HIV infectionCombination antiretroviral therapyPlasma HIV RNAHIV infectionImmune activationCD4 countHIV RNAPlasma neopterinStudy entryBaseline plasma HIV RNALow CD4 countRelevant depressive symptomsAnxiety symptomsCerebrospinal fluid measuresAssessment of depressionAHI participantsAntiretroviral therapyBlood markersObservational studyDepressive symptomsMacrophage activationAffective symptomsPossible associationSymptomsFluid measures
2013
Cerebrospinal fluid neopterin decay characteristics after initiation of antiretroviral therapy
Yilmaz A, Yiannoutsos CT, Fuchs D, Price RW, Crozier K, Hagberg L, Spudich S, Gisslén M. Cerebrospinal fluid neopterin decay characteristics after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. Journal Of Neuroinflammation 2013, 10: 828. PMID: 23664008, PMCID: PMC3657550, DOI: 10.1186/1742-2094-10-62.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCSF neopterin levelsAntiretroviral therapyNeopterin levelsCerebrospinal fluidCSF neopterinHAD patientsMacrophage activationART-mediated viral suppressionCommencement of ARTHigher pre-ART levelsCSF neopterin concentrationsPre-ART levelsProlonged antiretroviral therapySuppressive antiretroviral therapySet-point levelsBlood neopterinHAD subjectsART initiationAsymptomatic HIVTreatment-naïveViral suppressionNeopterin concentrationsImmune activationMost HIVHIV