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Clinical trials for a new technique
pioneered by Danish researchers
are underway, and doctors are
optimistic
Danish researchers are readying
human trials for a potentially life-
saving new HIV treatment. Already,
when tested on infected human
skin cells, the technique has proved
effective for killing the virus. And
if the treatment is deemed a
success in human trials, we might
be just a few months away from a
bona fide cure for AIDS.
The process can be best understood
in two main steps:
1. Normally, the HIV virus hides
out in "reservoirs" it builds for
itself inside infected DNA cells. But
this treatment flushes HIV from
behind its battlements using a class
of compounds called HDAC
inhibitors, which are typically used
to treat cancer .
2. Once HIV is flushed from its
hideout, the body's own immune
system turbo-charged by a
separate vaccination can then
seek out the newly vulnerable virus
and eliminate it. The hope is that
every single bit of the HIV virus
becomes
Now, the treatment is hardly
bulletproof. "The challenge will be
getting the patients' immune
system to recognize the virus and
destroy it," Dr. Ole Søgaard, a
senior researcher at the Aarhus
University Hospital in Denmark,
tells the Telegraph. "This depends
on the strength and sensitivity of
individual immune systems." That
said, the initial findings are
"promising," says Søgaard.
Source. Yahoo news.
pioneered by Danish researchers
are underway, and doctors are
optimistic
Danish researchers are readying
human trials for a potentially life-
saving new HIV treatment. Already,
when tested on infected human
skin cells, the technique has proved
effective for killing the virus. And
if the treatment is deemed a
success in human trials, we might
be just a few months away from a
bona fide cure for AIDS.
The process can be best understood
in two main steps:
1. Normally, the HIV virus hides
out in "reservoirs" it builds for
itself inside infected DNA cells. But
this treatment flushes HIV from
behind its battlements using a class
of compounds called HDAC
inhibitors, which are typically used
to treat cancer .
2. Once HIV is flushed from its
hideout, the body's own immune
system turbo-charged by a
separate vaccination can then
seek out the newly vulnerable virus
and eliminate it. The hope is that
every single bit of the HIV virus
becomes
Now, the treatment is hardly
bulletproof. "The challenge will be
getting the patients' immune
system to recognize the virus and
destroy it," Dr. Ole Søgaard, a
senior researcher at the Aarhus
University Hospital in Denmark,
tells the Telegraph. "This depends
on the strength and sensitivity of
individual immune systems." That
said, the initial findings are
"promising," says Søgaard.
Source. Yahoo news.
