Abstract
Plasma viral load and T-cell subset determinations in blood are the markers used for monitoring HIV-1 infection. However, key pathogenesis events, viral replication and most immunologic changes occur in the lymphoid tissues. We have studied the tonsillar biopsies of 30 patients in the early stages of the disease, before initiating treatment and after 12 and 36 months of fully effective highly active antiretroviral therapy. We have investigated the HIV RNA by polymerase chain reaction (lymphoid tissue viral load), the immunohistochemical HIV-p24 antigen expression, as well as the lymphoid tissue architecture and lymphoid cell subsets using morphometry. The lymphoid tissue viral load and the immunoexpression of p24, which was found to be mainly associated with follicular dendritic cells, decreased significantly after treatment, but did not disappear in all cases, even after 36 months of treatment. A significant improvement of the lymphoid tissue architecture was also observed after treatment, with recovery of follicular structures. These histological changes correlated with the lymphoid tissue viral load. Moreover, the counts of CD4+ increased whereas CD8+ and cytotoxic lymphocytes (CD8+ granzyme B+) decreased significantly, the ...Continue Reading
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