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Associations of gender and serum total cholesterol with CD4+ T cell count and HIV RNA load in antiretroviral-naïve individuals in Addis Ababa

BACKGROUND: Males are more susceptible than females to infections due to the differences in endocrine-immune interactions. Furthermore, it is reported that lowering cell cholesterol impairs viral replication and infection in vitro. However, the production of oxysterols in vivo by oxidation of choles...

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Autores principales: Adal, Melaku, Howe, Rawleigh, Kassa, Desta, Aseffa, Abraham, Petros, Beyene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30064395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5852-4