Nature Medicine
3, 605 - 606 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0697-605
Fighting HIV-1 with IL-16Michael Baier
& Reinhard KurthPaul-Ehrlich-Institutm, 63225 Langen, Germany Replication of HIV-1 is halted in human CD44 T cells engineered to express interleukin 16, suggesting a novel gene therapy approach to combat HIV infection (659−664).
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