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As we all know . AIDS is short for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. AIDS can be contracted either through sexual intercourse, by blood transfusion, or an exchange of bodily fluids from an infected person to a non-infected person. What many p ....

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... bodies coordination the immune response to a foreign invader by letting the immune cells communicate with the rest of the cells in the body. Next, the Aids virus goes after certain chemokines. Chemokines are proteins or (protein receptors) on the surface of T-cells and microphages, they are used to "talk" to, arouse, and attract cells. There are two variants of chemokines, alpha and beta chemokines. Among these there are many different chemokines from CCR5, CCR3, CXCR4, etc… Now AIDS needs the CD4 molecule and the CCR5 protein to be present on a T-cell to successfully infect the cell. It needs the CD4 molecule to latch on to the cell. Once ...