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AIDS patient eradicted of HIV virus?
#243103 - 11/10/08 10:37 PM
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Very interesting read while he went through some hardships doing this it sounds like the opening of a possible new door to treatment. The guy hasn't been on Meds for 600 days after a bone marrow transplant.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113507555.html
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Really amazing. I think more of these out of the box studies should be done. Unfortunately few people will want to go through this kind of operation. r
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that is incredible. Thanks for sharing the link to the article. I passed it on to several friends and family. Very encouraging for the future of medicine/science finding a cure for HIV/AIDS.
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Encouraging data indeed. Have learnt about people ending their lives because they have tested HIV+, not realizing that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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Sounds like we're on the right track, but doesn't HIV end up infiltrating every part of your body, and not just your blood stream?
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Yes it does hang out in other parts of the body. I was reading an article about it this morning.
From what I understood, the doctor remembered that marrow transplants had been done earlier to try and eridicate the virus. Those experiments didn't work.
From the Gene side of things, it's been discovered that some people have a mutation that changes the CCR5 receptor on the CD4 cell that prohibits the virus from attaching. These are the people that just don't get infected.
This doctor needed to do the Bone Marrow transplant for this patient because of the lukemia. He decided that since he had to do that, he would also look for a donor that had this particular gene mutation also.
I guess that as the bone marrow made new blood cells they had been changed by the particular gene and the patient CD4 cells that were produced had that CCR5 receptor changed.
It's a light. Maybe not at the end of the tunnel. But it's looks to be a huge step in putting what we know toward practical use.
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