News tagged with hiv replication

Experimental vaccine partially protects monkeys from HIV-like infection

Results from a recent study show that novel vaccine combinations can provide partial protection against infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys. In addition, in the animals that became infected, ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New book on HIV from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

The worldwide AIDS epidemic makes research on HIV, the disease processes it induces, and potential HIV therapies among the most critical in biomedical science. Furthermore, the basic biology of HIV infections ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

KS-herpesvirus induces reprogramming of lymphatic endothelial cells to invasive mesenchymal cells

Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is an etiological agent for Kaposi's sarcoma and two other rare lymphoproliferative malignancies, and it is the most common cancer in HIV-infected untreated individuals. Researchers at ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Antiretroviral therapy has tripled the proportion of adults achieving undetectable levels of HIV

Over the past decade in western Europe there has been a dramatic improvement in the ability of antiretroviral therapy to keep HIV under control in adults with virological failure to drugs from all three of the original antiretroviral ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Natural killer cells contribute to immune response against HIV

A new study shows for the first time that natural killer (NK) cells, which are part of the body's first-line defence against infection, can contribute to the immune response against HIV. In an article in the August 4 issue ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sexually transmitted co-infections increase HIV risk: study

(Medical Xpress) -- Bacterial and viral sexually transmitted infections can exacerbate HIV replication in co- infected individuals, a team of Canadian researchers led by Charu Kaushic, associate professor of pathology and ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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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created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0