Ex vivo modeling of HIV persistence in successfully treated subjects ...
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• Current methods to study <strong>HIV</strong> latency:<br />
- Cell l<strong>in</strong>es<br />
- Primary human cells (Bosque, Blood 2009; Mar<strong>in</strong>i, JI 2008; Tyagi, JV 2010;<br />
Swiggard, JV 2005; Saleh, Blood 2007; Yang, JCI 2009)<br />
- Cells from virally suppressed <strong>subjects</strong> (Reuse, PLoS One 2009;<br />
Blazkova, JID 2012)<br />
Current tools<br />
• Current assays to measure <strong>HIV</strong> <strong>persistence</strong>:<br />
- <strong>HIV</strong> DNA<br />
- Cell-associated <strong>HIV</strong> RNA<br />
- Co-culture assay (IUPM)<br />
- S<strong>in</strong>gle Copy Assay (SCA)