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Abstract
Normal immature thymocytes respond to activation by undergoing programmed cell death (apoptosis), a physiological deletion mechanism involved in the selection of the T-cell repertoire. In this article, Jean Claude Ameisen and André Capron suggest that inappropriate induction of a form of programmed T-cell death could account for both qualitative and quantitative helper T-cell defects of HIV-infected patients. A model of AIDS pathogenesis is presented that may explain several features of HIV infection, including evolution of the disease and the development of defects in nonimmunological organs.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1676268 DOI: 10.1016/0167-5699(91)90092-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Immunol Today ISSN: 0167-5699