Iowa Community Empowerment Newsletter, October 2003, Vol. 4, No. 6

Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public Health

Lettres patentes du Roy, pour l'enregistrement de quelques articles des traitez de paix & de commerce, conclus à Utrecht . Données à Versailles le 7. avril 1714

[Traité. 1713-04-11. Utrecht. France-Savoiefrançais)]

Accumulation of human immunodeficiency virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes away from the predominant site of virus replication during primary infection.

Down-regulation of the initial burst of viremia during primary human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is thought to be mediated predominantly by HIV-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). This response is associated with major perturbations in the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire. To investigate the failure of the cellular immune response to adequately control viral spread and replication and to prevent establishment of HIV infection, changes in the TCR repertoire and in the distribution of virus-specific CTL between blood and lymph node were analyzed in three patients with primary infection. By the combined use of clonotype-specific polymerase chain reaction and analysis of the frequency of in vivo activated HIV-specific CTL, it was shown that HIV-specific CTL clones preferentially accumulated in blood as opposed to lymph node. Accumulation of HIV-specific CTL in blood occurred prior to effective down-regulation of virus replication in both blood and lymph node. These findings should provide new insights into how HIV, and possibly other viruses, elude the immune response of the host during primary infection.

TUḤFAT al-NAṢĀ’IḤ de Yūsuf Gadā

Dans cette copie le bāb 45 est numéroté 46 par erreur, de même que la date de composition (f. 66v) est donnée comme étant 700H.[sic] au lieu de 795H. De la main de Muḥ. Zamān, on trouve des gloses lexicographiques entre les lignes ou dans le marges. La signature d’Aussant figure au f. 1. Ce ms. (Aussant n° 38) a été acquis par la B.N. en 1798. [Anc. cote, Suppl. persan 51].