“Pep Talk” Can Revive Immune Cells Exhausted by Chronic Viral Infection
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ATLANTA — Chronic infections by viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C eventually take hold because they wear the immune system out, a phenomenon immunologists describe as exhaustion.
Yet exhausted immune cells can be revived after the introduction of fresh cells that act like coaches giving a pep talk, researchers at Emory Vaccine Center have found. Their findings provide support for an emerging strategy for treating chronic infections: infusing immune cells back into patients after a period of conditioning.
The results are published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.
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