New Hope In HIV/AIDS Treatment
Written by admin on November 27th, 2009 in Health.
Our body has a system called the immune system, this system consisting of macrophages, lymphocytes, T cells and their friends. So when there are foreign in our bodies, somethings like bacteria or viruses, this body’s defense system will move to attack. Suppose there are harmful bacteria in the gut, so with alacrity and high professionalism of the macrophages, T cells and their friends will quickly move to the area and directly attack against the bacteria. So the infection does not occur and our bodies stay healthy.
whereas if we are exposed to HIV, the virus is attacking macrophages, T cells and their friends, so a decline in the immune system. This virus is very clever, what is visible from the attack of our immune system so that if this system has been mastered it can not do anything else. As the spearhead of the body’s defense system is in shambles, clearly many other bacteria and viruses more easily attack the body. Hence HIV / AIDS is considered as the gateway of the other strange diseases.
This virus attacks T cells and macrophages by the virus and CD4 bond with the help of CCR5, was there some white people with a presentations 1-3% in mainland Europe who naturally have a mutation of genes that express CCR5, since CCR5 mutation is then transformed so that HIV virus can not hold a bond with CD4, because they can not bind to the viral invasion did not happen. Whether mutation of this gene because of what until now unknown, which they obviously have better endurance and even immune to the HIV virus.
Whether mutation of this gen because of what until now unknown, which clearly these people have better endurance and even immune to the HIV virus.
This mutation known as CCR5 delta 32. People with one copy of CCR5 delta32 resistance and longer life chances if attacked by HIV, while those with two copies of CCR5 delta32 (meaning the father and mother both have this gene mutation) can be said almost immune to HIV infection.
Stem Sel, a media transfer of immunity.
Lately, stem cells are crowded discussed in various forums and medical journals either domestic or foreign, this is because the stem cells allows us to modify the DNA so that it can sort out the things expressed by the DNA in a benefit to health, say to transfer immunity against the HIV virus from those who have CCR5 delta32 mutation to HIV-infected people and perhaps even to all men so that the HIV virus could be the refrain.
An HIV-AIDS patients aged 42 years with complications of leukemia have a very significant development, even the lab results showed that the blood was not detected the HIV virus and various symptoms of AIDS who had been in pain also experienced a drastic decline. This development was started in patients undergoing stem cell transplants from donors that are considered immune to HIV 2 years earlier. This fact is based on a report published in the New England Medical Journal.
According to Drs. Gero Hutter (the team leader attending this patient), two years after transplant found no signs of HIV-AIDS in this patient, whereas during the two years are not using antiretroviral drugs commonly used by other people living with HIV AIDS. a great leap in medicine.
Research, experiments and further studies.
Although one patient had proven a success in the treatment of HIV using this method, but further research is still to be done again to be a standard HIV-AIDS therapy. This is because this method has a fairly high risk, namely when the stem cell transplant physicians should reduce and even eliminate the patient immune system to be replaced with a new immune system that much better. Lha at lowered immune system or even eliminated this danger, the problem is bacterial or viral infections can result in very little is fatal to the patient
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