B lymphocyte activation and exhaustion in chronic HIV : novel surrogate markers of generalised immune activation and selective modulation of aberrant B cell responses using vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)
Thesis (MScMedSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. === ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Chronic HIV-1 infection is characterized by immune activation and dysregulation of immune homeostasis, which impacts on multiple immune cell types. The B-cell compartment, which plays an important role in the pr...
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96898 |