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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Halper-Stromberg A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4163911 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell 20140814 5
Latent reservoirs of HIV-1-infected cells are refractory to antiretroviral therapies (ART) and remain the major barrier to curing HIV-1. Because latently infected cells are long-lived, immunologically invisible, and may undergo homeostatic proliferation, a "shock and kill" approach has been proposed to eradicate this reservoir by combining ART with inducers of viral transcription. However, all attempts to alter the HIV-1 reservoir in vivo have failed to date. Using humanized mice, we show that b ...[more]