Our objective was to examine the association between myocardial infarction (MI) and two DNA-polymorphisms at the proinflammatory chemokine receptors CCR2 (I64V) and CCR5 (32 bp deletion, Δccr5), ...

Human C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) is a receptor for β-chemokines that are regulated upon activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES/CCL5) and also macrophage-inflammatory protein ...

In fact, since 2007, when our patient underwent successful transplantation in Berlin, at least another six patients have received a graft from a donor who had been screened for homozygosity for the ...

News Genetic Mutation that Prevents HIV Infection Tied to Earlier Death Those with two copies of the Δ32 allele in the CCR5 gene are 21 percent more likely to die by age 76, although it’s not clear ...

Here, we present the case of a 27-year-old patient with HIV-1 infection and anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Because of a poor prognosis after progression of the T-cell lymphoma, stem-cell ...