Figure 4. HIV-C-DC-primed CD8+ T cells elicit antiviral effects.
Inhibition of HIV p24 production by infected autologous CD4+ T cells was monitored after incubation with variously stimulated CD8+ T cells. Mean p24 values of triplicates (+SD) from one donor on day 11 post addition of HIV-specific CD8+ T cells to NL4-3-incubated CD4+ T cells are shown. Inhibition by HIV-C-DC-primed CD8+ T cells was significantly greater than CD8+ T cells primed with non-opsonized HIV (pā=ā0.0085). Similar results were obtained with cells isolated from 7 different donors using R5-, X4- and R5X4-tropic viral isolates, BaL, 92BR030, 92UG037, NL4-3, 93BR020 (data not shown). A summary of all data in one graph was not feasible due to donor- and virus strain-dependent differences in the infection efficiency, therefore p24 values of one representative donor is shown in this figure.
