News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation, Feb. 21, 2008
Feb 26th 2008Drug InformationImmune System / Vaccines
Growth hormone boosts immune cell numbersIndividuals who are infected with HIV-1 are often highly susceptible to life-threatening infections because they are depleted of a subset of immune cells known as CD4+ T cells. A new study of individuals infected with HIV-1 by Laura Napolitano and colleagues at the Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, has indicated that daily administration of growth hormone can increase the numbers of CD4+ T cells in the blood.
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