cd4 cell count meaning

• [Medicine]
  The number of CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES per unit volume of BLOOD. Determination requires the use of a fluorescence-activated flow cytometer.

• The companies said the experimental drug may have reduced CD4 cell counts in some patients in the Phase 3 trials.
• They're infection fighting CD4 cell counts were 50 to 400, well below normal levels of 1, 000.
• It targets the reverse transcriptase enzyme and thereby has inhibitory effect on HIV by seemingly delaying the decrease in CD4 cell counts.
• Meanwhile, 3TC is available to AIDS patients with low CD4 cell counts whose disease is progressing despite AZT or who cannot tolerate AZT.
• Researchers claim Virodene dramatically reduced the level of HIV in patients'blood and boosted their infection-fighting CD4 cell counts within weeks.
• While CD4 cell counts typically replenish after effective ART, ILCs depletion is irreversible with ART initiated after the depletion despite suppression of viremia.
• Mariam's helper CD4 cell count, a measure of the capacity remaining in her immune system, was low but not desperately so.
• The FDA concluded that an increase in CD4 cell counts was an indicator of how effective the drug would be against AIDS and HIV infection.
• Formerly, the guidelines recommended starting antiretroviral treatment in HIV patients who had no AIDS symptoms when CD4 cell counts drop below 500 cells per cubic millimeter.
• Conclusions about relative effects of the drugs were based on clinical findings such as the drop in CD4 cell counts or the development of AIDS-related diseases.

• "cd4 cell count" meaning in Chinese: 《英文msh词典》CD4 Cell Count