Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO CD4 T helper cells are a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte that serves ...

Basic information on HIV and the immune system T-lymphocytes (sometimes just called T-cells) are called different names depending on the molecules on their surface. CD4 cells (also known as CD4 ...

Ongoing research investigating how HIV remains as a latent reservoir in resting T helper cells to ensure viral persistence in patients that have undergone treatment with highly active antiretroviral ...

HIV is a virus that attacks cells in the body ... and uninfected cells, to then identify helper T cells (which detect ...

In spite of seeming to be just 'bystander cells'that escape infection, many CD4 T cells are killed by the HIV virus, the reason for which researchers seem to have discovered at last. In spite of ...

Benjamin Chen, MD, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses the implications of his new study involving ...

Boosting the HIV-specific helper cells may be giving the virus more factories in which to reproduce. T helper (Th) cells have a "dual role as target cells for infection, as well as being important ...

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AIDS researchers continue to make progress in battling HIV, addressing the fight with a variety of new and promising approaches...but this NOVA Hot Science isn't about the fight against the AIDS ...

the T cells are supposed to lay off. During an autoimmune response, the helper T cells don't distinguish between foreign peptide antigens and self-peptides properly and go on the attack no matter ...

Now, try some realpolitik: HIV invading the immune system with antigen-specific immune responses kicking in within days, the virus preying on the very T helper cells needed to orchestrate immune ...