Toxina específica puede Complementar Tratamientos Antiretrovirales

HIV-Specific Poison May Complement ARVs
A study conducted in mice has shown that a toxin engineered to target HIV can eliminate infected immune cells in which the virus is replicating despite antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. This finding suggests that the toxin, called 3B3-PE38 and developed in 1998 in NIH (National Institutes of Health) labs, may one day serve as an adjunct to ARVs.

Cómo el VIH instiga al suicidio celular que causa el SIDA - How HIV Instigates Cellular Suicide to Cause AIDS

How HIV Instigates Cellular Suicide to Cause AIDS

by Benjamin Ryan

A scientific breakthrough sheds major light on a mystery that has perplexed scientists across the decades of the AIDS epidemic.

In this image, captured by an electron microscope, HIV (orange) is budding off this CD4 T immune cells (green). Credit: Jinny Wong

Since 1981, researchers around the globe have struggled to piece together the clues as to how the immune systems of people with AIDS are so devastatingly brought to heel. By 1984, researchers knew that HIV caused AIDS.  But it has been a long and winding path toward understanding the precise cellular mechanisms connecting the virus to the syndrome. Now, one team of scientists has made a significant break in the case, clarifying the step-by-step process by which HIV causes AIDS and challenging previous theories about how CD4 cells die off en masse in the presence of the virus.

As it turns out, HIV is not guilty of murdering CD4 cells, rather of instigating cellular suicide.

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Si los CD4 son altos, un Combo multivitamínico desacelera el VIH sin medicamentos antirretrovirales...

December 9, 2013

If CD4s Are High, A Multivitamin Combo Slows HIV Without ARVs

A particular combination of multivitamins along with selenium slows HIV disease progression among those who are treatment naive and have a CD4 count above 350, aidsmap reports. Publishing their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 878 treatment-naive people in Botswana between 2004 and 2009.

El fin de la pandemia del Sida está cerca ...

Virólogo afirma que el fin de la pandemia del Sida está cerca

Erradicar la pandemia de sida ya es un hecho factible, lo que daría lugar a la primera generación libre de la amenaza de infectarse con el virus VIH desde que éste se propagó, estimó el doctor Anthony Fauci, un eminente virólogo estadounidense.

Washington.- Erradicar la pandemia de sida ya es un hecho factible, lo que daría lugar a la primera generación libre de la amenaza de infectarse con el virus VIH desde que éste se propagó, estimó el doctor Anthony Fauci, un eminente virólogo estadounidense.

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Tributo a DONNA SUMMER - Requiem para la "Pantera de Boston"

Requiem for the Queen of Disco - The POZ Staff

By Dennis Daniel

Last week, Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, died of cancer at the tragically early age of 63. Summer was a major diva and a musical icon of the '70s, particularly to the gay community, which was finally coming into its own in this post-Stonewall era. In many ways her music was a clarion call for our generation. I remember one college party where my friends and I danced in the rain in the front yard with "Last Dance" blasting from the windows of the house. She had the remarkable talent of being able to get just about anyone on their feet and moving.

Marihuana vs. VIH

March 21, 2012

Marijuana and its CD4 Receptors: A New HIV Treatment Strategy?

by Tim Horn

Drugs that target one of the two cellular receptors stimulated by the active ingredient in marijuana may prove to be effective at blocking a form of HIV that has been linked to faster disease progression during late stages of the infection. Though the PLoS One research report highlighting these findings—published March 20 by a team of scientists at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York—stops short of concluding that marijuana is one of nature’s best antiretrovirals, the authors suggest that further study of cannabinoids is needed to ultimately discover drugs with both antiviral and symptom-reducing properties.