The Data from INSPIRE 2 HIV study showed that CYT107 administration can expand CD4 and CD8 T-cells while increasing the expression of gut homing molecules that may result in the restoration of the CD4 T-cell population of the gut mucosa.
The results demonstrate the importance of IL-7 in stimulating T-cell repopulation of the lymphoid tissue layer in the mucosa of the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract.
Mc Gill Hospitalstudy investigator Jean Routysaid CD4 T cell depletion in the gut mucosa is an important pathogenic event in HIV infection that is associated with T-cell activation and partially restored by ART.
"The results of the current study indicate that r-hIL-7 administration can expand gut T lymphocyte numbers, predominantly central memory CD4+ T-cells," Routy added.