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Study of Recovery of Intestinal CD4+ and Th17 T Cells in HIV-infected Individuals on Short-term Antiretroviral Therapy

NCT02097381 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2014-03-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

HIV infection is associated with a state of chronic, generalized immune activation that has been shown in many studies to be a key predictor of progression to AIDS. The molecular, cellular, and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the HIV-associated immune activation are complex and still poorly studied. There is, however, growing consensus that both viral and host factors contribute to this phenotype, with emphasis on the role played by the mucosal immune dysfunction (and consequent microbial translocation). Moreover if it is known that in HIV-infected individuals, a severe depletion of intestinal cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4+) T-cells, is associated with loss of epithelium integrity, microbial translocation and systemic immune activation, the kinetics of intestinal CD4+ T-cell reconstitution under combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) remains poorly understood.

This study sought to evaluate the reconstitution of intestinal CD4+ T-cells, including Th1 and Th17, in blood and colon samples collected from HIV-infected individuals before and after a short term cART.

Conditions

  • HIV Infection

Interventions

DRUG

Tenofovir-Emtricitabine plus Lopinavir/Ritonavir or Darunavir/Ritonavir

Conventional antiretroviral therapy started in naïve patients for antiretroviral treatment that met the criteria to start cART according to International Guidelines. The antiretroviral treatment consisted in a tenofovir-emtricitabine NRTI backbone (TDF/FTC, 300/200 mg/ml, once a day) plus boosted protease inhibitor, lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r, 400/100 mg twice a day) or darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r 800/100mg once a day).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Roma La Sapienza

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vincenzo Vullo, MD · University of Roma La Sapienza

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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