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Plasma-based treatment goes viral
Life-threatening viruses such as HIV, SARS, hepatitis and influenza, could soon be combatted in an unusual manner as researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of plasma for inactivating and preventing ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Elite controllers block integration of HIV DNA into host genome
Alone among those infected with HIV-1, so-called elite controllers spontaneously maintain undetectable levels of viral replication even absent the benefit of anti-retroviral therapy. Now Mathias Lichterfeld of the Massachusetts ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Tumor suppressor blocks viral growth in natural HIV controllers
Elevated levels of p21, a protein best known as a cancer fighter, may be involved in the ability of a few individuals to control HIV infection with their immune system alone. In a paper in the April edition of the Journal of ...
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Mar 14, 2011 |
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Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections
Illicit drug users are at increased risk of being exposed to microbial pathogens and are more susceptible to serious infections say physicians writing in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The review, which aims to imp ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Circulating blood antibodies are not required for HIV protection
New research shows that protective immunity against HIV can be achieved without the presence of virus neutralizing antibodies in the blood. The study, published by Cell Press in the February issue of the journal Immunity, de ...
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Feb 10, 2011 |
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Researchers find drug-resistant HIV patients with unimpaired immune cells
Mayo Clinic researchers have shown why, in a minority of HIV patients, immune function improves despite a lack of response to standard anti-retroviral treatment. In these cases, researchers say, the virus has lost its ability ...
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Nov 30, 2010 |
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Researchers pave the way for a better understanding of HIV infection and AIDS
Dr. Eric A. Cohen, Director of the Human Retrovirology research unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), and his team published yesterday, in the online open-access journal PLos Pathogens, the result ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 02, 2010 |
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A cure for HIV could be all in the 'mix'
Current HIV treatments do not eradicate HIV from host cells but rather inhibit virus replication and delay the onset of AIDS. However, a new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, AIDS Research & Therapy descri ...
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Aug 18, 2010 |
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Raltegravir intensification has no effect on residual viremia in HIV-infected patients on ART
In a double blind trial published this week in PLoS Medicine Rajesh Gandhi and colleagues detect no significant reduction in viral load after people with low-level HIV viremia had an integrase inhibitor added to their treatm ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 11, 2010 |
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New HIV treatment guidelines indicate importance of early, individualized antiretroviral treatment
Advances in antiretroviral treatment (ART) have shown that the progressive immune system destruction caused by HIV infection, including AIDS, can be prevented, indicating the importance of beginning ART early, when a person ...
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Jul 18, 2010 |
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Cellular and molecular events that restrict HIV transmission identified
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified two molecules that when activated by drugs, can inhibit a number of specific aspects of HIV transmission. These findings, published July 1 in the ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Insight into structure of HIV protein could aid drug design
Researchers at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have created a three-dimensional picture of an important protein that is involved in how HIV ...
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Jun 09, 2010 |
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Did the end of smallpox vaccination cause the explosive spread of HIV?
Vaccinia immunization, as given to prevent the spread of smallpox, produces a five-fold reduction in HIV replication in the laboratory. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Immunology suggest that the end of ...
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May 17, 2010 |
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Scientists identify mechanism T-cells use to block HIV
Scientists at Duke University Medical School and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a new role for a host protein that provides further insight into how CD8+ T cells work to control HIV and other infections. Study ...
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May 17, 2010 |
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Frequent alcohol use linked to faster HIV disease progression
HIV disease tends to progress at a faster rate in infected individuals who consume two or more alcoholic drinks a day, according to an important new paper in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
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May 13, 2010 |
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