Serial Cervicovaginal Exposures With Replication-Deficient SIVsm Induce Higher Dendritic Cell (pDC) and CD4+ T-Cell Infiltrates Not Associated With Prevention but a More Severe SIVmac251 Infection of Rhesus Macaques
Abdulhaqq S, Martinez M, Kang G, Foulkes A, Rodriguez I, Nichols S, Hunter M, Sariol C, Ruiz L, Ross B, Yin X, Speicher D, Haase A, Marx P, Li Q, Kraiselburd E, Montaner L. Serial Cervicovaginal Exposures With Replication-Deficient SIVsm Induce Higher Dendritic Cell (pDC) and CD4+ T-Cell Infiltrates Not Associated With Prevention but a More Severe SIVmac251 Infection of Rhesus Macaques. JAIDS Journal Of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2014, 65: 405-413. PMID: 24226059, PMCID: PMC3943721, DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000000047.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPlasmacytoid dendritic cellsSimian immunodeficiency virusT cell infiltrationDendritic cellsCD4 T cell lossCD4+ T cell infiltrationPlasmacytoid dendritic cell recruitmentRate of CD4 declineInfection of rhesus macaquesCD4 T cell infiltrationRate of viral replicationT cell lossPlasma viral loadRhesus macaquesCD4 T cellsCD4 T lymphocytesImmune cell infiltrationIndian rhesus macaquesAssociated with preventionCD4 countVaginal exposureCD4 declineImmunodeficiency virusVaginal tissueT cells