迄今为止HIV的治疗研究集中在清除T细胞中的病毒。巨噬细胞是广泛存在于肝、肺、骨髓和脑在内的全身组织,近日,北卡罗来纳大学医学院的研究人员发现HIV病毒会持续存在于受感染的巨噬细胞中。这意味着对HIV的任何干预性治疗都需同时以2种不同类型的细胞为靶点。相关研究结果发表在2017年4月17日的《Nature Medicine》期刊上。 So far, the research on the treatment of HIV has focused on the clearance of the virus in T cells. Macrophages are a widespread body of tissues in the liver, lung, bone marrow and brain. Recently, researchers at the University of North Carolina Medical School found that the HIV virus persists in infected macrophages. This means that any intervention to treat HIV requires targeting two different cell types at the same time. Relevant findings are published in the journal Nature Medicine on April 17, 2017.