How HIV Spreads in the Body (IMAGE)

University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences

How HIV Spreads in the Body

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University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers have shown that low cholesterol in dendritic cells might be the reason that HIV progression to AIDS is naturally slowed in some people.

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Nicole Davison/UPMC

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