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Adipose tissue and immune function: a review of evidence relevant to HIV infection.

ABSTRACT: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) have long been associated with abnormalities in adipose tissue distribution and metabolism. More-recent evidence demonstrates that adipocytes and adipose-resident immune cells have a role in the response to HIV. Clinical and laboratory studies indicate that viral proteins and antiretroviral medications alter adipocyte biology to enhance the persistent, systemic inflammatory state characteristic of untreated and treated HIV infection. Relationships between body composition and lymphocyte populations, cellular immune activation, and immune reconstitution in HIV-infected individuals receiving ART suggest that adipose tissue may also affect cellular immune function. This is further supported by in vitro studies demonstrating the effect of adipocytes and adipokines on lymphocyte proliferation, differentiation, and activation. Synthesis of the literature on adipose tissue biology and immune function in uninfected individuals may shed light on major outstanding research questions in the HIV field.

SUBMITTER: Koethe JR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3778969 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Adipose tissue and immune function: a review of evidence relevant to HIV infection.

Koethe John R JR Hulgan Todd T Niswender Kevin K

The Journal of infectious diseases 20130721 8

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) have long been associated with abnormalities in adipose tissue distribution and metabolism. More-recent evidence demonstrates that adipocytes and adipose-resident immune cells have a role in the response to HIV. Clinical and laboratory studies indicate that viral proteins and antiretroviral medications alter adipocyte biology to enhance the persistent, systemic inflammatory state characteristic of untreated and ...[more]

PMID: 23878320

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Project description:Two of the crucial aspects of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are (i) viral persistence in reservoirs (precluding viral eradication) and (ii) chronic inflammation (directly associated with all-cause morbidities in antiretroviral therapy (ART)-controlled HIV-infected patients). The objective of the present study was to assess the potential involvement of adipose tissue in these two aspects. Adipose tissue is composed of adipocytes and the stromal vascular fraction (SVF); the latter comprises immune cells such as CD4+ T cells and macrophages (both of which are important target cells for HIV). The inflammatory potential of adipose tissue has been extensively described in the context of obesity. During HIV infection, the inflammatory profile of adipose tissue has been revealed by the occurrence of lipodystrophies (primarily related to ART). Data on the impact of HIV on the SVF (especially in individuals not receiving ART) are scarce. We first analyzed the impact of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection on abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues in SIVmac251 infected macaques and found that both adipocytes and adipose tissue immune cells were affected. The adipocyte density was elevated, and adipose tissue immune cells presented enhanced immune activation and/or inflammatory profiles. We detected cell-associated SIV DNA and RNA in the SVF and in sorted CD4+ T cells and macrophages from adipose tissue. We demonstrated that SVF cells (including CD4+ T cells) are infected in ART-controlled HIV-infected patients. Importantly, the production of HIV RNA was detected by in situ hybridization, and after the in vitro reactivation of sorted CD4+ T cells from adipose tissue. We thus identified adipose tissue as a crucial cofactor in both viral persistence and chronic immune activation/inflammation during HIV infection. These observations open up new therapeutic strategies for limiting the size of the viral reservoir and decreasing low-grade chronic inflammation via the modulation of adipose tissue-related pathways.

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Adipose tissue and immune function: a review of evidence relevant to HIV infection.

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Adipose tissue and immune function: a review of evidence relevant to HIV infection.

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