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Processing of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Matched Blood for Alveolar Macrophage and CD4<sup>+</sup> T-cell Immunophenotyping and HIV Reservoir Assessment

Bronchoscopy is a medical procedure whereby normal saline is injected into the lungs via a bronchoscope and then suction is applied, removing ...

Université de Québec à Montréal

McGill University

Université de Montréal

Depletion of mucosal Th17 cells during HIV/SIV infections is a major cause for microbial translocation, chronic immune activation, and disease progression. Mechanisms contributing to Th17 deficit are not fully elucidated. Here we investigated alterations in the Th17 polarization potential of naive-like CD4(+) T-cells, depletion of Th17-commited subsets during HIV pathogenesis, and Th17 restoration in response to antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Impaired Th17 polarization of phenotypically naive CD4(+) T-cells during chronic HIV-1 infection and potential restoration with early ART.

The HIV-1 infection is characterized by profound CD4(+) T cell destruction and a marked Th17 dysfunction at the mucosal level. Viral suppressive antiretroviral therapy restores Th1 but not Th17 cells. Although several key HIV dependency factors (HDF) were identified in the past years via genome-wide siRNA screens in cell lines, molecular determinants of HIV permissiveness in primary Th17 cells remain to be elucidated.

Mohammad-Ali Jenabian

Department of Biological Sciences

Université de Québec à Montréal

Processing of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Matched Blood for Alveolar Macrophage and CD4⁺ T-cell Immunophenotyping and HIV Reservoir Assessment

Mohammad-Ali Jenabian

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Université de Québec à Montréal

Processing of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Matched Blood for Alveolar Macrophage and CD4+ T-cell Immunophenotyping and HIV Reservoir Assessment

Department of Biological Sciences

Processing of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Matched Blood for Alveolar Macrophage and CD4⁺ T-cell Immunophenotyping and HIV Reservoir Assessment