Israel Offer Hope for a cure for HIV

PARA peneliti Israel mengatakan, mereka telah menemukan cara untuk membunuh sel-sel yang terinfeksi HIV. Pada akhirnya, penemuan diharapkan bisa menawarkan harapan bagi obat untuk HIV.

Teknik yang dilakukan peneliti adalah mendapatkan virus untuk dibebani pada sel induk, yang mana membuat sel tersebut akan merusak dirinya sendiri dan membunuh virus.

Sejauh ini, terapi penyembuhan HIV yang dianggap senjata terkuat terhadap virus, yakni terapi antiretroviral, memang bisa menghentikan HIV bereplikasi, tetapi tidak memberantasnya dari sel induk atau menghilangkan sel-sel tersebut.
Para peneliti mengatakan bahwa pendekatan yang mereka gunakan dapat menciptakan sebuah terapi anti-HIV yang akan membasmi virus HIV. Demikian seperti dilansir okezone dari Health24, Kamis (19/8/2010).

One of the researchers, Professor Abraham Loyter from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said that HIV spreads through the human body when its DNA has been inserted into the stem cell gene. However, the virus that is inserted just enough for DNA to replicate, not enough to make stem cell gene is unstable, which will result in the death of infected cells in a process called apoptosis.

Loyter said, he and his team use of amino acids called peptides to enhance the integration of HIV DNA into human genes. This causes the infected cells into "panic mode" and self-destructive. For the record, the experiment did not have any effect on cells that are not infected.

The researchers warn that they are so far limited to "cure" HIV in the laboratory.

"Although this study are promising, a big warning to the study that this is the first step. So far, this experiment proved only 'cure' HIV in a small cup containing the cells in the laboratory, but the findings are interesting developments in the effort to eradicate this devastating global epidemic , "said Loyter.

"This process may eventually be developed into a new antiviral therapies and the general," he said.

The plan, these findings will be published in the journal AIDS Research and Therapy.

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