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Washington – SANA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US researchers have found a solution that could be effective in treating HIV / AIDS, restoring hope to millions of people living with the deadly disease.
According to the Daily Mail, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have concealed HIV in visible cells of the immune system and are only at a stage of research. a cure.
The researchers pointed out that targeting the gene "TNT" in the brain can expel the virus and make it vulnerable to the immune system and drugs currently used to cope with the disease, which could allow control.
The drugs currently used to treat the disease are not the cause of the problem, which the new study has attempted to address by focusing its efforts on the gene, the National Academy of Sciences recently reported.
According to the researchers, the activation of "TNT" will lead to the production of adequately infected cells, and then will be identified and destroyed by the immune system.
"During the course of the infection, HIV DNA enters the cell nucleus of his body and integrates into his own genome to help the TNT gene to control the mechanism of the cell so to produce copies, "said Ji Liang, a professor of bioengineering. A new virus eventually explodes in the cell to infect neighboring cells That worked normally despite the virus infection as long as the gene "TNT" was not activated to produce new copies.
Currently, people with AIDS are treated with "antiretroviral drugs" that slow the progression of the disease by reducing the risk of doubling the virus in the blood of the carrier, called "viral pregnancy".
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