Study of Anti-HIV Cellular Therapy Based on Dendritic Cells Pulsed With Chemically Inactivated Virus

Summary

The aim of this study was to assess tolerability and safety of three different formulations of an anti-HIV immunotherapy based on autologous dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with HIV chemically inactivated with Aldrithiol™-2 (AT-2). Patients were chronically infected with HIV, naïve for antiretroviral drugs. A possible immunological and virological favorable impact was also assessed.

Timeline

Start

2010-02

Primary completion

2014-05

Completion

2014-05

Publications

• Background Lu W, Arraes LC, Ferreira WT, Andrieu JM. Therapeutic dendritic-cell vaccine for chronic HIV-1 infection. Nat Med. 2004 Dec;10(12):1359-65. doi: 10.1038/nm1147. Epub 2004 Nov 28.
• Background Oshiro TM, de Almeida A, da Silva Duarte AJ. Dendritic cell immunotherapy for HIV infection: from theory to reality. Immunotherapy. 2009 Nov;1(6):1039-51. doi: 10.2217/imt.09.68.

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