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question · 11-29-04, 03:56 PM

Nov. 29, 2004 -- It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks.

The vaccine is made from a patient's own dendritic cells and HIV isolated from the patient's own blood. Dendritic cells are crucial to the immune response. They grab foreign bodies in the blood and present them to other immune cells to trigger powerful immune system responses to destroy the foreign invaders.

HIV infection normally turns these important immune system responses off. But animal studies show that when dendritic cells are "loaded" with whole, killed AIDS viruses, they can trigger effective immune responses that keep infected animals from dying of AIDS.

Wei Lu, Jean-Marie Andrieu, and colleagues at the University of Paris in France and Pernambuco Federal University in Recife, Brazil, tested the vaccine on 18 Brazilian patients. All had HIV infection for at least a year. Their T-cell counts -- a crucial measure of AIDS progression -- were dropping, meaning their disease was worsening. None was taking anti-HIV medications.

After getting three under-the-skin injections of the tailor-made vaccine, the amount of HIV in the patients' blood (called the viral load) dropped by 80%. After a year, eight of the 18 patients still had a 90% drop in HIV levels. All patients' T-cell counts stopped dropping.

The findings appear in the December issue of Nature Medicine.

"The results suggest that [these] vaccines could be a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," Andrieu and colleagues write. "The significant decrease of viral load as well as maintenance of ... [T-]cell counts observed at one year after immunization are particularly promising."

The researchers warn that their study is only proof of principle. It's still not clear which patients do best with the vaccine, although there's evidence that vaccination should be given as soon after HIV infection as possible. Only clinical trials comparing people who get the vaccine to those who don't can show whether this vaccine really is an effective AIDS therapy.

Similar approaches are being explored for the treatment of cancer and long-term viral infections such as hepatitis C.

[taken from: WebMD]

11-29-04, 03:59 PM

Of course there's a cure. The CIA (in conjunction with multinational pharmaceutical companies) wouldn't have introduced the disease unless they had the dope to fix it. How else could they enslave and impoverish entire continents of non-whites? They just needed to wait for enough people to get infected.

Oh yeah, did you hear about the plane that flew into the Pentagon?

question · 11-29-04, 04:00 PM

Oh no ... no you didn't.

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Originally Posted by xiannaix

Of course there's a cure. The CIA wouldn't have introduced the disease in conjunction with multinational pharmaceutical companies unless they had the dope to fix it. How else could they enslave and impovrish entire continents of non-whites? They just needed to wait for enough people to get infected.

Oh yeah, did you hear about the plane that flew into the Pentagon?

11-29-04, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by question

Oh no ... no you didn't.

what - you think HIV just happened?

question · 11-29-04, 04:02 PM

LOLY!

01234

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Originally Posted by xiannaix

what - you think HIV just happened?

Joseph V · 11-29-04, 04:03 PM

thats good to hear, now travis can stop worrying.

Funkenstein · 11-29-04, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by question

Nov. 29, 2004 -- It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks.

CDC says what?

Tortures Dionysos · 11-29-04, 05:14 PM

Eh... cure one disease... and a worse one will pop up in it's place.

Dionysos · 11-29-04, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Karen EpiK

Eh... cure one disease... and a worse one will pop up in it's place.

That's my little ray of sunshine.

11-29-04, 05:19 PM

Laughing online.

Suckimus Maximus · 11-29-04, 05:42 PM

Yeah, but doesnt hiv mutate every so often?

Wouldnt that make this vaccine about a good as a placebo in a few years?

audiodubliner · 11-29-04, 06:01 PM

thats so cool to hear.

what ever happened to magic johnson? he was magically better wanst he? kinda odd.

Tortures Dionysos · 11-29-04, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Dionysos

That's my little ray of sunshine.

Hey... I'm just being realistic.

Look at history... there is always a disease that wipes out massive amounts of people... only to be cured.. and then another pops up... an even more deadly one... in it's place.

I am going to hate to see what pops up after cancer is cured.

Johnny Funk · 11-29-04, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by xiannaix

Of course there's a cure. The CIA (in conjunction with multinational pharmaceutical companies) wouldn't have introduced the disease unless they had the dope to fix it. How else could they enslave and impoverish entire continents of non-whites? They just needed to wait for enough people to get infected.

Oh yeah, did you hear about the plane that flew into the Pentagon?

AWSOME!

JF

sealvl · 11-29-04, 06:31 PM

please........

11-29-04, 03:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
question Foolish Bastard Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Downtown Posts: 5,321	Possible HIV vaccine created Nov. 29, 2004 -- It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks. The vaccine is made from a patient's own dendritic cells and HIV isolated from the patient's own blood. Dendritic cells are crucial to the immune response. They grab foreign bodies in the blood and present them to other immune cells to trigger powerful immune system responses to destroy the foreign invaders. HIV infection normally turns these important immune system responses off. But animal studies show that when dendritic cells are "loaded" with whole, killed AIDS viruses, they can trigger effective immune responses that keep infected animals from dying of AIDS. Wei Lu, Jean-Marie Andrieu, and colleagues at the University of Paris in France and Pernambuco Federal University in Recife, Brazil, tested the vaccine on 18 Brazilian patients. All had HIV infection for at least a year. Their T-cell counts -- a crucial measure of AIDS progression -- were dropping, meaning their disease was worsening. None was taking anti-HIV medications. After getting three under-the-skin injections of the tailor-made vaccine, the amount of HIV in the patients' blood (called the viral load) dropped by 80%. After a year, eight of the 18 patients still had a 90% drop in HIV levels. All patients' T-cell counts stopped dropping. The findings appear in the December issue of Nature Medicine. "The results suggest that [these] vaccines could be a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," Andrieu and colleagues write. "The significant decrease of viral load as well as maintenance of ... [T-]cell counts observed at one year after immunization are particularly promising." The researchers warn that their study is only proof of principle. It's still not clear which patients do best with the vaccine, although there's evidence that vaccination should be given as soon after HIV infection as possible. Only clinical trials comparing people who get the vaccine to those who don't can show whether this vaccine really is an effective AIDS therapy. Similar approaches are being explored for the treatment of cancer and long-term viral infections such as hepatitis C. [taken from: WebMD] __________________ True, without falsehood, certain and most true, that which is above is the same as that which is below, and that which is below is the same as that which is above, for the performance of miracles of the One Thing. And as all things are from the One, by the meditation of One, so all things have their birth from this One Thing by adaptation.

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11-29-04, 03:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
xiannaix Guest Posts: n/a	Of course there's a cure. The CIA (in conjunction with multinational pharmaceutical companies) wouldn't have introduced the disease unless they had the dope to fix it. How else could they enslave and impoverish entire continents of non-whites? They just needed to wait for enough people to get infected. Oh yeah, did you hear about the plane that flew into the Pentagon?

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ber Guest Posts: n/a	Laughing online.