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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH
卷 2015, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2015/614127
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Grant MOP) [103230]
- Fonds de la Recherche Quebec-Sante (FRQ-S): Therapie cellulaire and Reseau SIDA/Maladies infectieuses, Quebec, Canada
- CANFAR/CTN Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CTN) [257]
The gut microbiota plays a key role in health and immune system education and surveillance. The delicate balance between microbial growth and containment is controlled by the immune system. However, this balance is disrupted in cases of chronic viral infections such as HIV. This virus is capable of drastically altering the immune system and gastrointestinal environment leading to significant changes to the gut microbiota and mucosal permeability resulting in microbial translocation from the gut into the peripheral blood. The changes made locally in the gut have far-reaching consequences on the other organs of the body starting in the liver, where microbes and their products are normally filtered out, and extending to the blood and even brain. Microbial translocation and their downstream effects such as increased indolamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) enzyme expression and activity create a self-sustaining feedback loop which enhances HIV disease progression and constitute a vicious cycle of inflammation and immune activation combining viral and bacterial factors. Understanding this self-perpetuating cycle could be a key element in developing new therapies aimed at the gut microbiota and its fallout after infection.
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