Hiv Defeated?
<div class="IPBDescription">New drug with almost no side effects...</div> <a href='http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507070204.html' target='_blank'>http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/...0507070204.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A durable new drug that prevents HIV from entering human cells and causes almost no side effects has been developed by a team of researchers at Kumamoto University.
The new drug, code named AK602, was reported by the research team's leader, Hiroaki Mitsuya, at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Kobe on Tuesday.
The drug's main feature is that it shuts out the AIDS virus at the point when it tries to intrude into a human cell.
Current AIDS medicines can lose their effectiveness in a few days when the virus changes and develops a resistance to those drugs. But AK602 is different because it reacts to human cells instead of attacking the virus, Mitsuya said.
He said the drug sticks to a protein called CCR5 that acts as an entrance into human cells for the AIDS virus. When the new drug becomes attached to the protein, it can prevent HIV from entering, and thus stop the virus from spreading.
The researchers conducted clinical tests on 40 AIDS patients in the United States.
AK602 not only proved effective against viruses that had become resistant to other drugs, but it also caused almost no side effects, the team said.(IHT/Asahi: July 7,2005) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
HOORAY FOR RISK-FREE SEX! =D =D =D
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A durable new drug that prevents HIV from entering human cells and causes almost no side effects has been developed by a team of researchers at Kumamoto University.
The new drug, code named AK602, was reported by the research team's leader, Hiroaki Mitsuya, at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Kobe on Tuesday.
The drug's main feature is that it shuts out the AIDS virus at the point when it tries to intrude into a human cell.
Current AIDS medicines can lose their effectiveness in a few days when the virus changes and develops a resistance to those drugs. But AK602 is different because it reacts to human cells instead of attacking the virus, Mitsuya said.
He said the drug sticks to a protein called CCR5 that acts as an entrance into human cells for the AIDS virus. When the new drug becomes attached to the protein, it can prevent HIV from entering, and thus stop the virus from spreading.
The researchers conducted clinical tests on 40 AIDS patients in the United States.
AK602 not only proved effective against viruses that had become resistant to other drugs, but it also caused almost no side effects, the team said.(IHT/Asahi: July 7,2005) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
HOORAY FOR RISK-FREE SEX! =D =D =D
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Ha, wasn't expecting that...
I was getting tired of all that risky sex.
If it is true then it'll be terrific news for the entire world
[EDIT] And I'm such a geek - I thought the title said "Hive defeated" >_> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
tpyo, cue pictures!
Let's just hope God doesn't respond with fast-acting airborn superAIDS.
What I'm thinking - but praying that I'm totally wrong.
Don't tell them that.. let them get sick then maybe all the idiots will die off ;p
AFTER THIS DRUG IS OUT IN CIRCULATION THERE IS NO RISK OF CONTRACTING ANY STD'S THEREFORE IF YOU THINK THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE A STD YOU ACTUALLY DON'T.. SO DO NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. Thx.
One would make soo much money distrubuting this wonder drug...
/me bleeds on Bacon's food.
/me bleeds on Bacon's food. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Seriously con you are flipping stupid.
I also question their clinical trial. How long was this trial? Did they monitor T-lymphocyte counts and did they extract and analyse peripheral blood macrophages/langerhans cells to see if they had picked up HIV particles (rendering this treatment rather irrelevant, because HIV can transfer directly cell->cell). Did they investigate if this can actually effectively gain entry into lymph nodes (where T-cells hang out).
For that matter, I also wonder if they have investigated this in an animal model for its toxicological and pharmacological effects? Looking through the literature currently, I've not been able to find anything about trials they have conducted or the methodology they used to investigate if it is even working.
Going to the media and not bothering to go through normal publication routes makes me think something suspicious is up.
I also question their clinical trial. How long was this trial? Did they monitor T-lymphocyte counts and did they extract and analyse peripheral blood macrophages/langerhans cells to see if they had picked up HIV particles (rendering this treatment rather irrelevant, because HIV can transfer directly cell->cell). Did they investigate if this can actually effectively gain entry into lymph nodes (where T-cells hang out).
For that matter, I also wonder if they have investigated this in an animal model for its toxicological and pharmacological effects? Looking through the literature currently, I've not been able to find anything about trials they have conducted or the methodology they used to investigate if it is even working.
Going to the media and not bothering to go through normal publication routes makes me think something suspicious is up. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You're too smart for our forums.
Yeah me too, good thing <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> s are immune(or don't cause it) to HIV and AIDS...
I also question their clinical trial. How long was this trial? Did they monitor T-lymphocyte counts and did they extract and analyse peripheral blood macrophages/langerhans cells to see if they had picked up HIV particles (rendering this treatment rather irrelevant, because HIV can transfer directly cell->cell). Did they investigate if this can actually effectively gain entry into lymph nodes (where T-cells hang out).
For that matter, I also wonder if they have investigated this in an animal model for its toxicological and pharmacological effects? Looking through the literature currently, I've not been able to find anything about trials they have conducted or the methodology they used to investigate if it is even working.
Going to the media and not bothering to go through normal publication routes makes me think something suspicious is up. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You're too smart for our forums. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
D:
I also question their clinical trial. How long was this trial? Did they monitor T-lymphocyte counts and did they extract and analyse peripheral blood macrophages/langerhans cells to see if they had picked up HIV particles (rendering this treatment rather irrelevant, because HIV can transfer directly cell->cell). Did they investigate if this can actually effectively gain entry into lymph nodes (where T-cells hang out).
For that matter, I also wonder if they have investigated this in an animal model for its toxicological and pharmacological effects? Looking through the literature currently, I've not been able to find anything about trials they have conducted or the methodology they used to investigate if it is even working.
Going to the media and not bothering to go through normal publication routes makes me think something suspicious is up. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You're too smart for our forums. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Yeah I agree. Too smart for this thread.
Yes, these have some promise because cells are naturally able to defend themselves against double stranded RNA (they cut it up with enzymes).
The main point I would suggest with these sorts of press releases is to remember that HIV has been cured several times now by 'miracle' new treatments. There is at least 4-5 miracle HIV treatments that promise to 'end' the disease every year or so. None of these ever manage to go anywhere in particular and never seem to appear again. Scientists seem to have an awfully bad track record for miracle HIV cures :/
I agree with whats been said on this thread. It sounds to good to be true, but if it is, great.
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I knew I'd seen a topic like this earlier.
Let's just hope God doesn't respond with fast-acting airborn superAIDS. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
"Argh! How didn't they die this time? Must be time for a new plague."
I also question their clinical trial. How long was this trial? Did they monitor T-lymphocyte counts and did they extract and analyse peripheral blood macrophages/langerhans cells to see if they had picked up HIV particles (rendering this treatment rather irrelevant, because HIV can transfer directly cell->cell). Did they investigate if this can actually effectively gain entry into lymph nodes (where T-cells hang out).
For that matter, I also wonder if they have investigated this in an animal model for its toxicological and pharmacological effects? Looking through the literature currently, I've not been able to find anything about trials they have conducted or the methodology they used to investigate if it is even working.
Going to the media and not bothering to go through normal publication routes makes me think something suspicious is up. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
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