Impact of illicit opioid use on T cell subsets among HIV-infected adults.

Impact of illicit opioid use on T cell subsets among HIV-infected adults.

OBJECTIVES:Opioids have immunosuppressive properties, yet opioid effects on T cell abnormalities consistent with the immune risk phenotype among HIV-infected individuals are understudied. METHODS:To assess associations between illicit opioid use and T cell characteristics (CD4/CD8 ratio, memory prof...

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Main Authors: E Jennifer Edelman, Kaku So-Armah, Debbie M Cheng, Margaret F Doyle, Sharon M Coleman, Carly Bridden, Natalia Gnatienko, Dmitry A Lioznov, Elena Blokhina, Matthew S Freiberg, Evgeny M Krupitsky, Brinda Emu, Jeffrey H Samet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5417591?pdf=render

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