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Therapeutic targeting of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 latency: current clinical realities and future scientific possibilities

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Exploring the scientific possibilities of new therapies targeting HIV-1 latency may hold new promise of eventual HIV- 1 eradication and warrant further consideration for rational drug design.
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This article is published in Antiviral Research.The article was published on 2000-12-01. It has received 32 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Latency (engineering).

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HIV reproducibly establishes a latent infection after acute infection of T cells in vitro

TL;DR: Direct sequencing of integration sites demonstrated that latent clones frequently contain HIV integrated in or close to alphoid repeat elements in heterochromatin, demonstrating that HIV can reproducibly establish a latent infection as a consequence of integration in or near heterochROMatin.
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Hiv infection is active and progressive in lymphoid tissue during the clinically latent stage of disease

TL;DR: The best way to fight HIV-1 disease, therefore, appears to be through prevention and early treatment.
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Molecular characterization, reactivation, and depletion of latent HIV

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that activation of latent virus is required for targeting by antiviral agents and provide the basis for future therapeutic strategies to eradicate the latent reservoir.
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Regulation of HIV-1 gene transcription: from lymphocytes to microglial cells.

TL;DR: Transcription is a crucial step for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV‐1) expression in all infected host cells, and knowledge about the molecular mechanisms underlying transcriptional regulatory events helps in the search for therapeutic agents that target the step of transcription in anti‐HIV strategies.
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Declining Morbidity and Mortality among Patients with Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

TL;DR: A study was conducted to evaluate the impact of protease inhibitors on the rates of selected opportunistic processes and mortality in patients with AIDS and found similar results.
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Rapid turnover of plasma virions and CD4 lymphocytes in HIV-1 infection

TL;DR: Treatment of infected patients with ABT-538 causes plasma HIV-1 levels to decrease exponentially and CD4 lymphocyte counts to rise substantially, indicating that replication of HIV- 1 in vivo is continuous and highly productive, driving the rapid turnover ofCD4 lymphocytes.
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Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

TL;DR: Almost complete replacement of wild-type virus in plasma by drug-resistant variants occurs after fourteen days, indicating that HIV-1 viraemia is sustained primarily by a dynamic process involving continuous rounds of de novo virus infection and replication and rapid cell turnover.
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Identification of a Reservoir for HIV-1 in Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

TL;DR: In a study of 22 patients successfully treated with HAART for up to 30 months, replication-competent virus was routinely recovered from resting CD4+ T lymphocytes, and generally did not show mutations associated with resistance to the relevant antiretroviral drugs.
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