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

• Hoofdauteurs: Melaku Adal (Auteur), Rawleigh Howe (Auteur), Desta Kassa (Auteur), Abraham Aseffa (Auteur), Beyene Petros (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...