... diseases. The depletion of the CD4 T lymphocytes is the hallmark of the progression of HIV infection and, in the absence of antiviral treatment, the main contributor to the development of opportunisticinfections ... arthritis the developmental pattern of arthritis differed substantially between three distinctmonoclonals, two of them preventing, the third one accel-erating the development of the disease ... generation of various self-epitopes, which in the absence of HIV are ignored due to tolerance mecha-nisms. In fact, the formation of Env (gp160)-CD4 com-plexes in the ER can lead to their retention...