Researchers from the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco have carried out a preliminary lab study in which they found that an experimental drug might be available to block the AIDS virus.
The drug was developed to treat epilepsy, but the study researchers have found the drug could prove beneficial in preventing AIDS virus. The drug was tested in human tissues in the laboratory and the study researchers have affirmed that it worked quite efficiently in preventing HIV from destroying key cells of the immune system.
Dr. Warner Greene said their aim was to see how HIV kills CD4 cells. The study researchers were of the view that they were aware that HIV affects some CD4 cells and transforms them into virus-producing factories.
But it is through the research that they have got to know many cells die without undergoing the transformation procedure. Greene said HIV enters the cells, but it is not able to come up with complete infection.
In response to the same, the cells then attack themselves by the immune system, which as Green is more like a suicide. The drug works by blocking the enzyme that plays a key role in the immune system attack.
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Via Top News US
