Anti-HIV effect of PMN and MNC in HIV+ patients. (polymorphonuclear neutrophil leukocytes and monocytes) (Research Report)

AUTHORS: J.D. Chun, C. Mitcheltree, R.L. Roberts and E.R. Stiehm. Los Angeles, California.

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Fifteenth Anniversary of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunopathology, held March 12-17, 1993, in New Orleans, Louisiana, "We studied the anti-HIV effects of human PMNs and MNCs and the MNC components (adherent monocytes and non-adherent cells) by assaying their ability to inhibit p24 antigen production in HIV-infected CD4 cells in the absence or presence of HIVIG (hyperimmune IVIG from HIV(+) patients). The target cells were CD4(+) cells obtained from normal donors by a CD4 panning method which were stimulated …