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PLOS ONE
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191606
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- UCLA AIDS Institute [NIH [K23 AI110532-01A1, R01 AI093520-01A1]
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Introduction Lymphoid tissue fibrosis may contribute to incomplete immune reconstitution on antiretroviral therapy (ART) via local CD4(+) T lymphocyte (CD4) depletion. Hyaluronic acid (HA) increases with fibrotic burden. CXCL4 concentrations increase in response to pro-fibrotic stimuli, but lower CXCL4 concentrations in HIV-infected individuals may reflect successful immune evasion by HIV. We investigated relationships between circulating HA and CXCL4 concentrations and immune reconstitution on ART in HIV-infected Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study participants. Methods HIV-infected men on ART for >1 year with cryopreserved plasma samples and suppressed post-ART HIV-1 RNA were included. Men with post-ART CD4 <200 cells/mm(3) were defined as immunologic non-responders (n = 25). Age-/race-matched men with post-ART CD4 >500 cells/mm(3) served as controls (n = 49). HA and CXCL4 concentrations were measured via ELISA. Results Median pre-ART CD4 was 297 cells/mm(3) for non-responders vs 386 cells/mm(3) for controls. Median post-ART CD4 was 141 cells/mm(3) for non-responders and 815 cells/mm(3) for controls. HIV infection duration was 23 years, with median time on ART 13 years for non-responders vs 11 years for controls. Pre-ART HA and CXCL4 concentrations did not vary by eventual immune reconstitution status. Post-ART HA concentrations tended to be higher (85 vs 36 ng/mL, p = 0.07) and CXCL4 concentrations were lower (563 vs 1459 ng/mL, p = 0.01) among non-responders. Among men with paired pre-/post-ART samples, non-responders had greater HA increases and CXCL4 decreases than controls (HA: 50 vs 12 ng/mL, p = 0.04; CXCL4: -1258 vs -405 ng/mL, p = 0.01). Conclusions Higher circulating concentrations of HA and lower concentrations of CXCL4 are associated with failure of immune reconstitution on ART.
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