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How TRIM5 fights HIV

Thanks to a certain protein, rhesus monkeys are resistant to HIV. Known as TRIM5, the protein prevents the HI virus from multiplying once it has entered the cell. Researchers from the universities of Geneva and Zurich have now discovered the protein's mechanism, as they report in Nature. This also opens up new prospects for fighting HIV in humans.

Published
20 April 2011
From
Eurekalert HIV
How HIV causes disease
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.

Published
14 March 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Malaria Drug Plaquenil Calms Immune Activation

Plaquenil (hydrochloroquine), a drug used to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, was able to significantly reduce immune activation in a small group of HIV-positive people.

Published
09 March 2011
From
AIDSMeds
How HIV works
NIH-funded study shows early brain effects of HIV in mouse model

A new mouse model closely resembles how the human body reacts to early HIV infection and is shedding light on nerve cell damage related to the disease, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Published
02 March 2011
From
EurekAlert
How HIV causes disease
'Sleepy' immune system might fight HIV

A Manitoba AIDS scientist, who has spent 25 years trying to unlock the mystery of HIV-resistant sex workers in Kenya, says a reduced immune system might actually be the best defence against the disease.

Published
16 February 2011
From
CBC News
How HIV causes disease
Immune system boost cures HIV mice

A group of Australian scientists have been able to cure HIV in mice by boosting their immune systems. Doctor Marc Pellegrini from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute found a hormone known as Interleukin 7 stimulates the body's response to an

Published
04 February 2011
From
ABC
Ageing and HIV
Rapid ageing of T-cells after HIV infection could help explain cancers, diseases of ageing

HIV infection can cause a specific sub-group of CD4 T-cells to age by as much as 20 or 30 years within three years of contracting the virus,

Published
27 January 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
How HIV causes disease
HIV's trickery within the macrophage revealed

HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. The the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe after three decades of research, and it offers scientists a new, unexpected way to try to stop the virus.

Published
23 January 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Cardiovascular disease
Accelerated ageing of the immune system linked to heart disease risk in women with HIV

Accelerated ageing of the immune system, caused by chronic HIV infection, was strongly associated with harmful changes in the carotid artery that may lead to long-term cardiovascular

Published
17 January 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Starting treatment
Immune restoration in DART study: late start means low CD4 count for years

HIV-infected adults participating in the DART trial in Uganda and Zimbabwe who began antiretroviral treatment with CD4 counts below 125 cells/mm³ were very unlikely to

Published
19 February 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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