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Comprehensive phenotyping of circulating immune cell subsets in people living with HIV

28 Min

SUMMARY

By Adriana Navas, Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases (RCI), The Netherlands

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Systemic chronic inflammation and immune dysfunction can drive development of non-AIDS-related comorbidities (NARCs) in people living with HIV (PLHIV). To lower the risk of NARCs, it’s critical to understand how alterations in composition and function of circulating immune cells contribute to NARCs-related pathogenesis. In the study described in this 29-minute video, three flow cytometry panels were designed and standardized to phenotypically and functionally identify the main circulating immune cell subsets in PLHIV. Combined with unsupervised computational techniques, this standardized immunophenotyping approach may support discovery of novel phenotypes with clinical relevance in NARCs, and demonstrate future utility in other immune-mediated diseases.