futurism : declared in A Transplant Complication May Let Us Wipe Out HIV in The Human Body

In Brief Researchers have discovered that post-transplant donor cells trigger a potentially fatal immune system war, graft-versus-host disease, that may wipe out HIV. New Insight Into HIVSo, does this mean that doctors will induce an immune system war in patients intentionally, with the hopes that they'll live and be cured? Current research suggests that the cure might be the aftermath of an immune system war that the transplant cells triggered within his body — a war he survived, but the virus didn't. In Brown's case, the healthier donor cells won, killing not just the immune response in his cells, but also the HIV virus that lived there. If they're right, knowing how the disease finds where HIV hides may lead to a cure.

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In Brown's case, the donor's cells attacked his immune cells (including the HIV contained in the cells). Essentially, what happens is this: the donor's immune cells attack the recipient's cells. Still, if this does turn out to be accurate, it might not be such an appealing approach to use because it's virtually a deliberate attempt to kill a patient's immune cells which can easily turn fatal. At the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute in Spain, six patients with HIV and cancer who received treatment similar with Brown's now appear to be cleared of HIV. And that can certainly addsupport to the idea that it's the graft-versus-host disease that kills HIV, not the transplant.


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