PubMed · 4842776
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J J Pappas. 1974. Middle ear ventilation tubes.. https://doi.org/10.1288/00005537-197407000-00004
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It is now apparent that HIV infection leads to a gradual collapse of a complex system of lymphoid tissue. This collapse tends to be associated with a change in virus tropism from macrophages to T lymphocytes, and a change in phenotype from nonsyncytium inducing (NSI) to syncytium inducing (SI). An experimental system is required to study the role of this change in HIV pathogenesis in lymphoid tissue. Here we describe such a system. Histocultures of human lymphoid tissue preserve their general cytoarchitecture, including a network of follicular dendritic cells (FDCs). Histocultures of tonsils, adenoids, or lymph nodes support productive infection with various laboratory and primary isolates of HIV-1 of different tropism and phenotype and exhibit isolate-dependent CD4+ T lymphocyte depletion. A strong correlation between the extent of CD4+ T cell depletion and the SI/NSI phenotype of the isolates is demonstrated. AZT was used as a model drug to inhibit viral replication and CD4+ T cell depletion in lymphoid histocultures. HIV pathogenesis and the effect of antivirals can now be studied in human lymphoid tissue under controlled conditions in vitro.
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