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Contact
information:
Telephone: (514) 934-8035
e-mail address:
chris.tsoukas@muhc.mcgill.ca
website:
http://www.mcgill.ca/hostres/investigators/tsoukas/
Projects for Thesis
Supervision:
1. Effect of HIV on impaired immunoglobulin
class switch recombination and B cell signaling in individuals with
concomitant common variable immunedeficiency.
2. Optimizing HIV therapy: The use of ΦX174 in
an index cohort in predicting HIV specific T cell responses to
therapeutic vaccines.
3. Non HIV associated CD4 cell depletion in
adults with opportunistic infections.
Recent
Publications:
Peretz, Y., Ndongala, M.L., Boulet, S.,
Boulassel, M.-R., Rouleau, D., Cote, P., Longpre, D., Routy, J.-P.,
Falutz, J., Tremblay, C., Tsoukas, C.M., Sekaly, R.-P. and Bernard, N.F. (2007)
Functional T cell subsets contribute differentially to HIV
peptide-specific responses within infected individuals: Correlation of
these functional T-cell subsets with markers of disease progression.
Clin. Immunol. 124: 57-68.
Valcke, H.S., Bernard, N.F., Bruneau, J.,
Alary, M., Tsoukas, C.M.
and Roger, M. (2006)
APOBEC3G genetic variants and their association with risk of HIV
infection in highly exposed Caucasians. AIDS 20: 1984-1986.
Tsoukas, C.,
Eyster, M.E., Shingo, S., Mukhopadhyay, S., Giallella, K.M., Reicin, A.S.
and Melian, A. (2006)
Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of etoricoxib in the treatment of
hemophilic arthropathy. Blood 107: 1785-1790.
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