Discover evidence related to the ability of HIV virus to regenerate

According to research results published in Nature (UK), US scientists have discovered many important evidence related to the ability of "regeneration" of HIV after being affected by the types Drug treatment , thereby helping to find ways to inhibit the ability to regenerate and support the treatment of HIV / AIDS.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University said that after antiviral drugs were introduced into the patient, HIV virus was not destroyed but thanks to the mutation mechanism they were hidden in CD4 T cells , one wall. the part that makes up the immune system, making it essentially invisible to the body's defense mechanism. Once the treatment stops, these viruses "reincarnate", continue to copy and attack the patient's body. That's why HIV cannot be cured with drugs.

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Doctors had hoped that if they could get the HIV virus to show up while the patient was taking antiviral drugs, the body's defense mechanism would detect cells infected with HIV and destroy them and drugs can prevent the virus from spreading. But so far this method has not been effective because the HIV virus does not stop mutating to avoid detection by the immune system.

However, the good news is that the new research experiments have shown that the human body's immune system can be "trained" to detect dangers and erase them.

New findings by the scientists show that patients who take early treatments often have viruses that do not carry this mutation, and those who treat later are most likely to have mutations. This makes them "immortal" against the effects of the immune system.

However, the scientists confirmed that although HIV viruses have mutations, more or less of these viruses still contain the original proteins that are likely to be weak points that will help the immune system after being trained to "find and kill " mutant viruses based on these original proteins."

Scientific studies conducted in a laboratory with mice should take longer to study on human body. However, this is also considered a new achievement to support finding a treatment for this century's disease.