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Fighting HIV-1 with IL-16

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Replication of HIV-1 is halted in human CD44 T cells engineered to express interleukin 16, suggesting a novel gene therapy approach to combat HIV infection (659–664).

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    Michael Baier & Reinhard Kurth

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Baier, M., Kurth, R. Fighting HIV-1 with IL-16. Nat Med 3, 605–606 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0697-605

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