Immunological Changes in Monocyte Subsets and Their Association With Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells in HIV-1-Infected Individuals With Syphilis: A Brief Research Report

This study and other related experiments were approved by the Beijing Youan Hospital Research Ethics Committee, and informed consent was obtained in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The study was carried out in accordance with approved guidelines and regulations. Author Contributions BS, LfL, TZ, and HW conceived the study, designed the experiments, and analyzed the data. NG, XY, TS, LL, and GL performed the experiments. LfL, TJ, YG, TZ, BS, and HW contributed to reagents and materials. NG, LfL, and BS wrote the article. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 81772165 to BS, 81571973 to HW), the National 13th Five-Year Grand Program on Key Infectious Disease Control (2017ZX10202102-005-003 to BS, 2017ZX10202101-004-001 to TZ, 2018ZX10301-407-005 and 2018ZX10302103-001-003 to TJ), the NSFC-NIH Biomedical collaborative research program (81761128001 to HW), the Beijing Municipal of Science and Technology Major Project (D161100000416003 to HW), the Funding for Chinese overseas talents returning to China in 2016-Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (to BS), the Basic-Clinical Research Cooperation Fund of Capital Medical University (17JL20 to BS), the Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research (BZ0089). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Conflict o...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research