Innovation in anti Human Immunodeficiency Virus

A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "HIV Vaccines".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 2273

Special Issue Editor

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND 58203, USA
Interests: HIV-1; HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders; neurovirology; Alzheimer disease; endolysosomes and autophagy; innate immunity; coronaviruses

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Human immunodeficiency virus is a virus that causes a deficiency of the human immune system. HIV destroys the body's T lymphocytes, thus blocking cellular and humoral immunity processes, resulting in immune system paralysis, which leads to the spread of various diseases in the body, and eventually AIDS. Due to the extremely rapid mutation of HIV, it is difficult to produce a specific vaccine, so far there is no effective treatment, posing a great threat to human health.

There is therefore an urgent need for further research into HIV's function to help researchers develop new treatments that can effectively fight the disease. In this regard, we have launched this Vaccine Special Issue (MDPI), and we welcome your valuable contributions in the form of an influential article focusing on the theme "Innovation in anti Human Immunodeficiency Virus".

We encourage and welcome submissions of manuscripts regarding the following topics:

  1. Perspectives and reviews regarding the human immunodeficiency virus;
  2. Original or review articles regarding human immunodeficiency virus: analysis and detection;
  3. Case reports or case series of AIDS with typical or atypical presentation;
  4. Developing and improving new technologies or vaccines for use against immunodeficiency-based viruses.

Dr. Khan Nabab
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • immune
  • HIV
  • diseases
  • vaccine
  • virus

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Divergent Cytokine and Chemokine Responses at Early Acute Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Correlated with Virus Replication and CD4 T Cell Loss in a Rhesus Macaque Model
by Nongthombam Boby, Apurv Srivastav, Sudesh K. Srivastav and Bapi Pahar
Vaccines 2023, 11(2), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11020264 - 25 Jan 2023
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Cytokine and chemokine levels remain one of the significant predictive factors of HIV pathogenesis and disease outcome. Understanding the impact of cytokines and chemokines during early acute infection will help to recognize critical changes during HIV pathogenesis and might assist in establishing improved [...] Read more.
Cytokine and chemokine levels remain one of the significant predictive factors of HIV pathogenesis and disease outcome. Understanding the impact of cytokines and chemokines during early acute infection will help to recognize critical changes during HIV pathogenesis and might assist in establishing improved HIV treatment and prevention methods. Sixty-one cytokines and chemokines were evaluated in the plasma of an SIV-infected rhesus macaque model. A substantial change in 11 cytokines/growth factors and 9 chemokines were observed during acute infection. Almost all the cytokines/chemokines were below the baseline values for an initial couple of days of infection. We detected six important cytokines/chemokines, such as IL-18, IP-10, FLT3L, MCP-1, MCP-2, and MIP-3β, that can be used as biomarkers to predict the peripheral CD4+ T cell loss and increased viral replication during the acute SIV/HIV infection. Hence, regulating IL-18, IP-10, FLT3L, MCP-1, MCP-2, and MIP-3β expression might provide an antiviral response to combat acute SIV/HIV infection. Full article
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