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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Melaku Adal (लेखक), Rawleigh Howe (लेखक), Desta Kassa (लेखक), Abraham Aseffa (लेखक), Beyene Petros (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Abstract 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 o...