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| Vaccines: |
 | Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara (MVA) priming and Fowlpox Virus booster elicit stronger CD8+ T cell response in mice against an HIV-1 epitope than DNA-Poxvirus prime-booster approach. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. |
| The HIV-1 chimeric protein CR3 expressed by poxviral vectors induces a diverse CD8+ T cell response in mice and is antigenic for PBMCs from HIV+ patients. Vaccine. |
| The first generation of candidate HIV-1 vaccines can induce antibodies able to neutralize primary isolates in assays with extended incubation phases. Vaccine. |
| Therapeutic vaccination with MVA-HIV-1 nef elicits Nef-specific T-helper cell responses in chronically HIV-1 infected individuals. Vaccine. |
| Development of a DNA vaccine designed to induce cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to multiple conserved epitopes in HIV-1. Journal of Immunology. |
| M cell DNA vaccination for CTL immunity to HIV. Journal of Immunology. |
| Toll-like receptor ligands modulate dendritic cells to augment cytomegalovirus- and HIV-1-specific T cell responses. Journal of Immunology. |
| Clustering of Th cell epitopes on exposed regions of HIV envelope despite defects in antibody activity. Journal of Immunology. |
| Immunization with Th-CTL fusion peptide and cytosine-phosphate-guanine DNA in transgenic HLA-A2 mice induces recognition of HIV-infected T cells and clears vaccinia virus challenge. Journal of Immunology. |
| Gradual adaptation of HIV to human host populations: good or bad news?. Nature Medicine. |
| Microparticles and nanoparticles as delivery systems for DNA vaccines. Crit. Rev. Ther. Drug. Carrier Syst.. |
| Peptide immunogens based on the envelope region of HIV-1 are recognized by HIV/AIDS patient polyclonal antibodies and induce strong humoral immune responses in mice and rabbits. Molecular Immunology. |
| Attenuated nef DNA vaccine construct induces cellular immune response: role in HIV-1 multiprotein vaccine. Immunology Letters. |
| Safety evaluation of GX-12, a new HIV therapeutic vaccine: Investigation of integration into the host genome and expression in the reproductive organs. Intervirology. |
| Effector HIV-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity in long-term nonprogressors: Associations with viral replication and progression. Journal of Medical Virology. |
| Enhanced immunogenicity of SIV Gag DNA vaccines encoding chimeric proteins containing a C-terminal segment of Listeriolysin O. Virus Research. |
| Gp120-alum boosting of a Gag-Pol-Env DNA/MVA AIDS vaccine: Poorer control of a pathogenic viral challenge. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. |
| IL-12/GM-CSF coadministration in an SIV DNA prime/protein boost protocol enhances Gag-specific T cells but not virus-specific neutralizing antibodies in rhesus macaques. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. |
| Phenotypic and functional T-cell aging in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): differential behavior of CD4 and CD8 subsets. Blood. |
| Complexes of plasmid DNA with basic domain 47-57 of the HIV-1 Tat protein are transferred to mammalian cells by endocytosis-mediated pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry. |
Prevention: |
| Diverse HIV-1 subtypes and clinical, laboratory and behavioral factors in a recently infected US military cohort. AIDS. |
| Tuberculosis epidemics driven by HIV: is prevention better than cure?. AIDS. |
| Alternatives to HIV-1 RNA concentration and CD4 count to predict mortality in HIV-1-infected children in resource-poor settings. The Lancet. |
| Short-term risk of disease progression in HIV-1-infected children receiving no antiretroviral therapy or zidovudine monotherapy: a meta-analysis. The Lancet. |
| Use of injections in healthcare settings worldwide, 2000: literature review and regional estimates. British Medical Journal. |
| Human immunodeficiency virus retesting during pregnancy: costs and effectiveness in preventing perinatal transmission. Obstetrics and Gynecology. |
| Potential use of safer injecting facilities among injection drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Canadian Medical Association Journal. |
| Estimating the cumulative number of human immunodeficiency virus diagnoses by cross-linking from four different sources. Pezzotti P, et al.. |
| Mobility and the spread of human immunodeficiency virus into rural areas of West Africa. International Journal of Epidemiology. |
| High human immunodeficiency virus type 1 seroprevalence in men who have sex with men in Buenos Aires, Argentina: risk factors for infection. International Journal of Epidemiology. |
| The impact of behavioural changes on the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C among injecting drug users. International Journal of Epidemiology. |
| Developmental toxicology studies of WHI-07, a novel nucleoside analogue-based dual-function microbicide, administered intravaginally to rabbits. Toxicologic Pathology. |
| Decline in mortality, AIDS, and hospital admissions in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in the United Kingdom and Ireland. British Medical Journal. |
| Use of dried whole blood spots to measure CD4+ lymphocyte counts in HIV-1-infected patients. The Lancet. |
NeuroAIDS: |
| HIV-1 Tat protein upregulates inflammatory mediators and induces monocyte invasion into the brain. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. |
| Neuroprotective activities of sodium valproate in a murine model of human immunodeficiency virus-1 encephalitis. Journal of Neuroscience. |
| Temporal relationships between HIV-1 Tat-induced neuronal degeneration, OX-42 immunoreactivity, reactive astrocytosis, and protein oxidation in the rat striatum. Brain Research. |
| Cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B genotypes and central nervous system disease in AIDS patients. Journal of Medical Virology. |
| The primary phase of infection by pathogenic simian-human immunodeficiency virus results in disruption of the blood-brain barrier. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. |
| High frequency of virus-specific CD8+ T cells in the central nervous system of macaques chronically infected with simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac251. Journal of Virology. |
| Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 enters primary human brain microvascular endothelial cells by a mechanism involving cell surface proteoglycans independent of lipid rafts. Journal of Virology. |
| Genetic and functional analysis of full-length human immunodeficiency virus type 1 env genes derived from brain and blood of patients with AIDS. Journal of Virology. |
Virology: |
| Kinetics of lymphocyte proliferation during primary immune response in macaques infected with pathogenic SIVmac251: Preliminary report of the effect of early antiviral therapy. Journal of Virology. |
| Binding of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 to immature dendritic cells can occur independently of DC-SIGN and mannose binding C-type lectin receptors via a cholesterol-dependent pathway. Journal of Virology. |
| Quantitation of HLA class II protein incorporated into human immunodeficiency type 1 virions purified by anti-CD45 immunoaffinity depletion of microvesicles. Journal of Virology. |
| HIV-1 subtype B' dictates the AIDS epidemic among paid blood donors in the Henan and Hubei provinces of China. AIDS. |
| Increased association of 7SK snRNA with Tat cofactor P-TEFb following activation of peripheral blood lymphocytes. AIDS. |
| The Tat protein of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) interacts with the EGF-like repeats of the Notch proteins and the EGF precursor. Virus Research. |
| HIV-1 in genital tract and plasma of women: Compartmentalization of viral sequences, coreceptor usage, and glycosylation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. |
| Identification of T cell-signaling pathways that stimulate latent HIV in primary cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. |
| The di-leucine motif in the cytoplasmic tail of CD4 is not required for binding to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Nef, but is critical for CD4 down-modulation. Journal of General Virology. |
| Two novel fully functional isoforms of CX3CR1 are potent HIV coreceptors. Journal of Immunology. |
| Impaired TCR-mediated induction of Ki67 by naive CD4+ T cells is only occasionally corrected by exogenous IL-2 in HIV-1 Infection. Journal of Immunology. |
| Signaling but not trafficking function of HIV-1 protein Nef is essential for Nef-induced defects in human intrathymic T-cell development. Blood. |
| Segregation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtypes by risk factor in Australia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. |
| Specific HIV-1 env gene silencing by small interfering RNAs in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Gene Therapy. |
| Productive HIV infection of resting CD41 T cells: Role of lymphoid tissue microenvironment and effect of immunomodulating agents. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. |
| Inhibition of HIV-1 infection by a CCR5-binding cyclophilin from Toxoplasma gondii. Blood. |
| The -1030/-862-linked TNF promoter single-nucleotide polymorphisms are associated with the inability to control HIV-1 viremia. Immunogenetics. |
| Pro-apoptotic activity of HIV-1 auxiliary regulatory protein Vpr is subtype-dependent and potently enhanced by nonconservative changes of the leucine residue at position 64. Journal of Biological Chemistry. |
| The enzymatic activity of CEM15/Apobec-3G is essential for the regulation of the infectivity of HIV-1 virion but not a sole determinant of its antiviral activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. |
| Functional evolution of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein 120 association site of glycoprotein 41. Journal of Biological Chemistry. |
| Presence of host ICAM-1 in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 virions increases productive infection of CD4+ T lymphocytes by favoring cytosolic delivery of viral material. Journal of Virology. |
| Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication in primary macrophages by using Tat- or CCR5-specific small interfering RNAs expressed from a lentivirus vector. Journal of Virology. |
| Structure and function of CC-chemokine receptor 5 homologues derived from representative primate species and subspecies of the taxonomic suborders Prosimii and Anthropoidea. Journal of Virology. |
| Contrasting use of CCR5 structural determinants by R5 and R5X4 variants within a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 primary isolate quasispecies. Journal of Virology. |
| Relationship between in vitro human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication rate and virus load in plasma. Journal of Virology. |
| Atomic force microscopy investigation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HIV-infected lymphocytes. Journal of Virology. |
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