Measuring CD4 T-cells is important in helping healthcare providers determine the stage and possible complications of HIV infection. While they are no longer used to determine when HIV therapy should ...

Higher levels of CD4-positive naïve T cells in patients receiving CAR T-cell therapy for multiple myeloma are associated with ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

Killer immune cells destroy cancer cells and cells infected by virus. These CD8 + T cells are activated after detection of viral infection or growth of “non-self” tumor cells. However, in chronic ...

In a study published in Nature Aging on Nov. 26, a research team from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health (SINH) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that aging specifically impairs ...

Most of these treatments are based on CD8 T lymphocytes, ''killer cells'' able to eliminate diseased cells. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has explored an alternative approach involving ...