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Topical treatment shown to inhibit HIV and herpes simplex virus infection

...oth the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the herpes simplex Virus. The study, presented at the 12th Co... predominant mode of HIV transmission, and genital herpes plays a major role in the sexual spread of HIV. The researchers conducted a prospective, randomized...

Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases

...und effect on susceptibility of female mice to the herpes simplex virus, type 2 (HSV-2 ), one of the most co...tive creams could be formulated that would prevent herpes virus infection before they could start. Additionally she says, if they were designing a vaccine tri...

Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

...r the transplant. Opportunistic infections,such as herpes zoster and cytomegalovirus infection, also occurred in afew patients after the transplant, but were managed with appropriatetherapy.Throughout the study, all patients were to receive highly activeantiretroviral therapy (HAART) to help reduce these op...

Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus

Following the recent deadly outbreak of equine herpes virus at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Der...), appear to be more effective in preventing horse herpes than other more widely used vaccines. "It's important that people know that the MLV has been in use...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

... of the virus that causes measles and another, the herpes simplex virus, responsible for those lip blisters ... of a Variety of Tumors: Abstract 5292 A modified herpes simplex virus, built with a potent immune stimulant to thwart the spread of cancer cells, is being t...

When it comes to cell entry, being average has its advantages

...ticle until it is completely engulfed. This is how herpes and influenza viruses get inside cells. The process is believed usually to involve clathrin, a protein that coats the invader to aid in the Velcro-like fastening. Yet scientists have shown that flu viruses can invade cells even without a clathrin co...

Achilles heel of the herpes virus possibly found

...l now, scientists haven't fully understood how the herpes simplex virus (HSV) manages to do all of this. And...t. An estimated 45 million Americans have genital herpes and millions more have the more visible oral variety. Once someone is infected, they're infected for...

High rates of sexually transmitted infections found in young drug users

... Health and other institutions found high rates of herpes simplex virus 2 and syphilis among young drug user...School of Public Health. The researchers examined herpes simplex virus 2 and syphilis test results in 543 heroin, cocaine and crack users from Baltimore, Md....

Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain in animals

...secret to their success is based on a virus called herpes simplex or HSV ?the same virus that causes cold so...uccessful use of gene transfer technology, using a herpes viral vector, to treat peripheral neuropathic pain in animals. Based on their success in related stu...

Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain

...secret to their success is based on a virus called herpes simplex or HSV ?the same virus that causes cold so...uccessful use of gene transfer technology, using a herpes viral vector, to treat peripheral neuropathic pain in animals. Based on their success in related stu...

Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study

...of California, San Diego. Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is caused by reactivation of the virus that causes chickenpox. Once chickenpox infection has run its course, the virus is not eliminated; rather, it retreats to clusters of sensory nerve cells usually located near the spinal cord, where the v...

Researcher uncovers details of how cancer spreads

...cancers have been linked to viruses, including the herpes virus and its association with cervical cancer. "Critics of this work will ask why v-Src has not been found in human cancer," said Guan. "But there are many examples of studies and ideas that come out of work like this that stimulate related researc...

Performing monkeys in Asia carry viruses that could jump species to humans

...eukemia in people. One macaque tested positive for herpes B virus, also known as CHV-1, which rarely infects humans, but, in the 40 known human cases, was associated with an 80 percent fatality rate. The researchers still do not know the prevalence of such simian viruses across larger urban performing mon...

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

... to other viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV), a herpes virus that causes opportunistic 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 Jose...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

..., when combined with specific genetic traits and a herpes virus, are a key factor in causing the cancer. "We see the herpes virus in sea lions without cancer, so the virus alone isn't enough to cause cancer in sea lions, whi...

Protein finding could lead to treatment for inflammatory diseases

...iosity because it has a homologue in humans and in herpes viruses, and each of these homologues regulate NF-...esemble chickenpox (a disease actually caused by a herpes virus) and are often confused as such. There is no treatment. The incidence of MCV infections has i...

Cyclosporine inhibits hepatitis C virus in vitro

...een shown to have anti-viral activity against HIV, herpes simplex and vaccinia virus, leading researchers to speculate it might also inhibit hepatitis C virus. To examine this hypothesis, they analyzed the impact of the drug in a liver transplant population. They also studied its effect on hepatitis C in vi...

Unraveling the viral mechanism

...ars structurally similar although smaller than the herpes simplex virus, which causes cold sores and related infections. That means it should be possible to use these tools to understand better how this and similar viruses infect nerve cells and, some day, interrupt that disease process. The advance occurr...

Hopkins study suggests commercially available antibiotic may help fight dementia in HIV patients

... as Alzheimer's, and infections of the brain, like herpes encephalitis and West Nile encephalitis," says Rumbaugh. "However, it will require a lot more development before drugs like these can be used even to treat patients with HIV dementia, let alone to treat patients with other neurological diseases." ...

Knowledge of infection may prevent spread of herpes virus

...itting the virus that causes most cases of genital herpes could be cut in half by more testing and informing... infection would lead to decreased transmission of herpes simplex virus (HSV) to others. But Anna Wald, MD, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Washingt...

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