Exosomes Transport Anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Factors from Human Cervical Epithelial Cells to Macrophages

• Main Authors: Xi-Qiu Xu (Author), Biao Zhang (Author), Le Guo (Author), Yu Liu (Author), Feng-Zhen Meng (Author), Xu Wang (Author), Wen-Hui Hu (Author), Adil I. Khan (Author), Wen-Zhe Ho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The female reproductive tract (FRT) is a major site of HIV sexual transmission. As the outermost layer of cells in the FRT, the human cervical epithelial cells (HCEs) have direct contact with HIV or infected cells. Our early work showed that supernatant (SN) from TLR3-activated HCEs contain the anti...