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DAART
See: Directly Administered Antiretroviral Therapy
DAIDS
See: Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
D
Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB)
An independent committee of community representatives and
clinical research experts who review data while a clinical trial is
in progress to ensure that participants are not exposed to undue
risk. A DSMB may recommend that a trial be stopped if there are
safety concerns or if the trial objectives have been achieved, or the
DSMB can require changes to the study design to ensure safety of
participants.
Dementia
See: AIDS Dementia Complex (ADC)
Dendritic Cell
A type of antigen-presenting cell that picks up foreign substances
from the bloodstream and presents them to other parts of the
immune system, which activates an immune response against the
foreign invader.
See Also: Antigen-Presenting Cell (APC)
Antigen
Dendritic Cell Vaccine
Vaccine made of antigens and dendritic antigen-presenting cells.
Dendritic cell vaccines are being studied as possible therapeutic HIV
vaccines to treat HIV-infected people.
See Also: Therapeutic HIV Vaccine
Dendritic Cell
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
Chemical structure that contains the genetic instructions for
reproduction and protein synthesis for all cells and for many viruses.
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