CD31 (PECAM-1) is a marker of recent thymic emigrants among CD4+ T-cells, but not CD8+ T-cells or ? d T-cells, in HIV patients responding to ART

Some severely immunodeficient HIV patients experience poor recovery of CD4 T-cell counts on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Evaluation of the function of thymopoiesis in T-cell production in individual patients requires a simple marker of T-cells that have recently emigrated from the thymus. Here, we...

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Main Authors: Tanaskovic, S., Fernandez, S., Price, Patricia, Lee, S., French, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17404