In vitro infection of epidermal Langerhans cells with HIV. (Research Report)

AUTHORS: L.R. Braathen, G. Ramirez, R.O.F. Kunze, C. Mork and H. Gelderblom. Department of Dermatology, The National Hospital, University of Oslo; and Department of Virology, Robert Koch Institute, Bundesgesundheitsamt, Berlin.

According to the abstract of the authors' presentation at the Franco-German Cooperation on AIDS Research symposium Macrophages as Target Cells for HIV, held in Strasbourg, France, "Human dendritic epidermal Langerhans cells (Lc) are important for the immunoregulation of the skin. Their antigens and receptors are in part identical to those of classical macrophages, and in addition they carry the T-cell markers CD1 and CD4, the latter …