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Session 68   Poster Abstracts
Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Dysfunction
Wednesday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Poster Hall
439HIV-1 Viremia Prevents the Establishment of IL-2-Producing HIV-Specific Memory CD4+T Cells Endowed with Proliferative Capacity
S A Younes*1, B Yassine-Diab1, A R Dumont2, R Boulassal2, Z Grossman3, J-P Routy2, and R P Sekaly1,2
1Montreal Univ., Canada; 2McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada; and 3Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel
440Sustained Decline in T-cell Activation in Patients under Successful HAART is Associated with Higher CD4+ T Cell Gains
J M Benito*, M Lopez, S Lozano, P Martinez, J Gonzalez-Lahoz, and V Soriano
Madrid, Spain
441
Loss of CD127 Defines a Generalized Memory T-cell Dysfunction in HIV-infected Patients
B Cervasi1, M Paiardini1, H Albrecht1, A Muthukumar2, D Sodora2, J D Altman1, M B Feinberg1, and G Silvestri*1
1Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA and 2Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr., Dallas, USA
442Increasing Viral Diversity Following Primary HIV-1 Infection Reflects Positive Selection but Does Not Correlate to Changes in CD4 Counts or Viral Loads
D Smith*1, G Hightower1, S Kosakovsky Pond1, C Ignacio1, D Richman1,2, E Daar3, S Little1, and S Frost1
1Univ. of California, San Diego, USA; 2San Diego VA Healthcare Systems, La Jolla, CA, USA; and 3Harbor-UCLA Med. Ctr., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA
443Preferential Apoptosis of HIV-1 Specific CD4+ T cells
E Yue, C Kovacs, R Dimayuga, P Parks, and M Ostrowski*
Univ. of Toronto, Canada
444Chronic Immune Activation Leads to T Cell Depletion: a Mouse Model for HIV Pathogenesis
M Hazenberg*, S Galkina, G Chkhenkeli, C Stoddart, and M McCune
Gladstone Inst. of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, CA, USA
445HIV M-tropic Envelope Signaling Through the CCR5 Co-receptor Induces Apoptosis in T Cells
A Villasis-Keever*, S Vlahakis, T Gomez, and C Paya
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
446env, Not nef, Is a Cytopathic Determinant of R5 AIDS HIV-1
K Olivieri*1, R Scoggins1, J R Taylor Jr1, A Matthews2, D Charnauskas1, B Brodrick1, M Chmura1, D Rekosh1, M-L Hammarskjold1, and D Camerini2
1Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA and 2Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
447High Prevalence of R77Q Vpr Mutation in Long-term Non-progressors from an Italian Cohort of HIV-1-infected Patients
D Mologni*1, B Zanone-Poma1, E Gianelli1, G Monolo2, G Quinzan3, L Milazzo1, M Galli1, A Riva1, and r-HoPeS
1Univ. of Milan, Italy; 2ASL di Magenta, Milan, Italy; and 3Hosp. Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy
448Activation of CD4+ Naïve Lymphocytes Decreases Expression of P-glycoprotein, but Not Multi-drug Resistance Associated Protein 4
M P De Pasquale*, T Allos, L Sutton, A Shintani, S M Grill, D Unutmaz, and R T D’Aquila
Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Nashville, TN, USA
449
Chemokine Coreceptor Control of TRAIL Induced Apoptosis by gp120 and SDF-1
J J Lum*1, Z Nie2, J Weaver2, H Lee1, D H Lynch3, and A D Badley2
1Univ. of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 2Mayo Clinic and Fndn., Rochester, MN.; and 3Amnis Corp., Seattle, WA, USA
450 CD4+ T-cell Depletion in AIDS: Synergy between Non-infectious HIV-1 and Other Viruses Induces Selective Apoptosis via a TRAIL/TRAIL Receptor-dependent Mechanism
J P Herbeuval*1, A Boasso1, J D Lifson2, H Yagita3, and G M Shearer1
1NCI, NIH, DHHS, CI, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2AIDS-Vaccine Prgm., NCI-Frederick, MD, USA; and 3Jutendo Univ., Tokyo, Japan
451Perturbation of CD4+ T Cell Subsets during HIV-1 Infection
S Grill1, M Leelawong1, K Richter1, A Motsinger1, T Hulgan1, K Nagata2, D W Haas1, and D Unutmaz*1
1Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Sch., Nashville, TN, USA and 2BML Inc., Res. and Devt. Ctr., Matoba, Kawagoe Saitama, Japan
452Specific Depletion of CD27+B220- Memory B Cells in HIV Infection
M Morrow*1, A Valentin1, R Yarchoan2, and G N Pavlakis1
1NCI at Frederick, NIH, DHHS, MD, MD USA and 2NCI, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
453
Low-level Antigenic Exposure Differentially Affects T-cell Activation and HIV-specific T-cell Response
A Karlsson*1, S Younger1, J Martin2, Z Grossman3, E Sinclair4, P Hunt2, E Hagos2, T Wrin5, C Petropolous5, D Nixon1, and S Deeks2
1Gladstone Inst. of Virology and Immunology, Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA; 2Univ. of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Gen. Hosp., USA; 3Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel and NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA; 4Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA; and 5ViroLogic Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA