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hope the discovery is made soonest.hiv+ patient-2nd line regime
When a cell is infected with HIV doesn't send up a red flag in the form of the Class 1/2 MHC Antigen Presentation? Why can't we use that to our advantage to hone in on latenly infected cells of any type?
I pray to God to give more knowledge and wisdom to all stakeholders and especially to Dr. Siliciano.
Lets not shoot the great efforts of Dr. Siliciano by saying "it can't be done" because of such and such. Lets give him credit for thinking out of the box and continuing research in this very important field...otherwise there will be a lot of people that will continue dying from an "unnatural" deaths. My hats off to Dr. Siliciano!
I am dreaming of the day when this world free from hiv.Especially people living with the the virus are suffering much of the of nutrition and opportunistic problems. These days ,thanks to your efferts ,the people are taking HAART and there is big progress on the lives of people.but still it is difficult to say ,the medication has brought the expected change in countries like Ethiopia.The aid send for the needy people is mainly taken by government officials.unless we get the cure in time we wil d
It would be imprtant if the result is going to be practical in near future ,especially,to save the lives of people in Africa who loses their live because of lack of nutrition and any other appropriate medication to HAARt.
ricky, There are a couple of problems with that line of thinking. A, infecting some one with a virus will not activate all of there memory cells and as the article stated there is roughly 1 hiv infected memory cell for every million memory cells. B, the person would of had to aquire the virus pre hiv infection and there is no way to tell for sure which memory cells are waiting for which virus. Also i would assume that a method like that would not completely purge hiv infected memory cells.
Thomas
Hi Ricky G, Dallas; Good thinking, but I am afraid that for your idea to have any merit you would need to know every virus that that patient had been exposed to. This would be rather impossible not to mention the dangers of a possible 'mistaken' infection on an already weakened immune system. This research does show promise, however in awakening the dormant CD4 cells, do we have a system efficient enough to take full advantage of this and destroy the infected cells before they become dormant again? Good work anyway.
June 22, 2010 • Dunedin, NZ