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Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research

...ng health concerns that include HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis and malaria. "In addition, the program has a strong conservation thrust. Establishing this center will allow more resources to be dedicated to primate conservation in Nepal because it has the potential to generate significant funding that can be ...

AIDS vaccine research offers new insights on survival

...otection against other viruses including polio and hepatitis B -- have been unsuccessful. "HIV mutates so quickly it can evade antibody immunity," explains Letvin. Instead, Letvin and other scientists in this field have focused their work on developing a vaccine that confers cellular immunity, so that a group...

Statins stop hepatitis C virus from replicating

...ol medications, can inhibit the replication of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). They could replace ribavirin in com...n therapy with interferon in patients with chronic hepatitis C," the authors conclude. "Furthermore, our developed OR6 assay system will be useful for the time-s...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...bers respond to treatment for the "silent disease" hepatitis C. Dr. Maria Sjogren, a retired Army colonel and ...least half of her patients tested positive for the hepatitis C virus. She then started wondering about how servicemembers were faring with treatments and how the...

UCSD researchers develop 'smart petri dish'

...xicants such as water contaminants or viruses like hepatitis cause long-term liver damage." Others involved in the development include Sara Alvarez, a graduate student in Sailor's laboratory, and Austin Derfus, a graduate student of engineering in Bhatia's former UCSD laboratory. UCSD has filed several paten...

Study details hepatitis C ability to block immune system response

...een adequately sterilized. Viral infections like hepatitis C often trigger an immediate innate immune respons... The current study sheds light on one strategy the hepatitis C virus uses to resist the immune system. The findings suggest that the hepatitis C virus inhibits t...

Novel therapy combinations gain ground in treating hepatitis

According to recent estimates, hepatitis has become a worldwide health problem, affecting m...inflammatory medicines like interferons to improve hepatitis symptoms. In research presented today at Digestive Disease Week® 2006 (DDW), new combinations of th...

How IVF could be causing genetic errors in embryos

...ll development (part of the immune system) and the hepatitis C virus binds to it to gain entry to cells. H19 ?a developmentally regulated gene, thought to be a tumour suppressor and associated with Beckwith Wiedeman syndrome. Slc38a4 ?plays a role in amino acid transport to cells. Copg2 ?plays a role in tran...

Cycles of cell death, proliferation key to liver cancer

...s major risk factors are persistent infection with hepatitis B and C viruses, and exposure to toxic chemicals, including alcohol ¡V all of which cause chronic liver injury and inflammation. Although not common in the United States., the incidence of HCC is on an upward trajectory, with little hope for treatme...

For Stanford scientists, RNAi gene therapy takes two steps forward, one step back

...ve gene. With key genes shut off, viruses such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV are unable to multiply and cause disease. However, some reports had suggested that RNAi gen...

Hepatitis C therapy: Inhibiting newly discovered microDNA molecule

...f Stanford University scientists reported that the hepatitis C virus needs a specific microRNA, named miR-122, ...scientists inactivated the microRNA, the amount of hepatitis C virus RNA was reduced by approximately 80 percent. The discovery was widely heralded for its pote...

Teens unaware of sexually transmitted diseases until they catch one, Carnegie Mellon study finds

...lamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, genital warts, hepatitis B, trichomoniasis and syphilis. Girls who reported having been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease knew more about that particular disease than other girls, but did not know more about the other diseases. On average, with the exception of H...

Cyclosporine inhibits hepatitis C virus in vitro

Liver transplant patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) achieved significantly better long-t...plantation. To address this problem, patients with hepatitis C often undergo interferon-ribavirin combination therapy after receiving a liver transplant in hopes...

U of S researchers develop new vaccine candidate against hepatitis C

...tion (VIDO) have developed a vaccine candidate for hepatitis C, leading to hope in the fight against a disease ...decreased the amount of a carrier virus expressing hepatitis C virus (HCV) protein in mice by 100,000 times compared to the control. "This technique uses the b...

Ocean virus identified in human blood samples

... in the blood of individuals with liver damage, or hepatitis of unknown cause related to blood exposure. A stu...virus genus causes a fatal hemorrhagic disease and hepatitis that has killed millions of rabbits across four continents in the past 20 years. In more than 30 ye...

'Virus chip' detects new virus in prostate tumors

... a dozen or more cases of severe encephalitis, and hepatitis and leukemia. Because the virus was probably originally acquired from another species, it is known as a xenotropic retrovirus ?in this case, a xenotropic murine-like retrovirus, or XMRV. This is not the first virus of this family to be discovered, ...

Duke to test bird flu vaccine dosing

...dult vaccines, including those for whooping cough, hepatitis A and hepatitis B. As with current flu vaccines given yearly in the U.S., the H5N1 vaccine causes the body's immune...

MicroRNA may have fail-safe role in limb development

... our 25,000 genes. It has been linked to diabetes, hepatitis C, leukemia, lymphoma and breast cancer. But only now have microRNAs been connected to actual growth processes. "We found miR 196 expressed only in the hindlimbs of mice, not the forelimbs - in other words, the feet but not the hands," said Brian H...

Needle-free immunizations

...les used in injections causes millions of cases of hepatitis B and hepatitis C, and thousands of HIV infections. The World Health Organization has estimated that as many as one...

UCLA scientists discover immune response to HIV differs, even in identical twins

...ic infections in immunosuppressed individuals, and hepatitis C, the latter being similar to HIV in both its changeable and chronic nature. The study represented collaboration with other UCLA investigators and with Joseph Church of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Keck School of Medicine at the Univer...

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