CONTENTS

Foreword i

Preface ii

Contributors iii

CHAPTERS

1. CD8 Antiviral Soluble Factors and Human Immunodeficiency Virus

(HIV) Control. 1

Nitin K. Saksena, Jing Qin Wu, Katherine Lau, Li Zhou, Maly Soedjono and Bin Wang.

2. Cytokines and HIV Infection. 17

Massimo Alfano and Guido Poli.

3. Defensins and HIV Infection 51

Theresa L. Chang and Mary Klotman.

4. Extracellular HMGB1: An Ambiguous Messenger During HIV-1

Infection. 64

Joel Gozlan, Chloe Borde and Vincent Marechal.

5. The uPA/uPAR System and suPAR in HIV Infection. 81

Ostrowski Sisse Rye, Haastrup Eva, Langkilde Anne, Ullum Henrik and Eugen-Olsen Jesper.

6. α1Antitrypsin Therapy Increases CD4+ Lymphocytes to Normal Values

in HIV-1 Patients. 102

Cynthia L. Bristow, Jose Cortes, Roya Mukhtarzad, Maylis Trucy, Aaron Franklin,Val Romberg and Ronald Winston.

7. Vitamin D and HIV Infection. 111

Joan Fibla and Antonio Caruz.

8. The Complement System and HIV-1 Infection. 145

Heribert Stoiber, Zoltdn Banki and Doris Wilflingseder.

Index 156

Abbreviations 158