UK Scientists Discover Jelly to Prevent AIDS transmission

UK Scientists Discover Jelly to Prevent AIDS transmission. The war against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), continue to progress. A number of scientists led by Professor Robin Offord and Olivier Hartley of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, recently, successfully developed a kind of molecule that is believed to protect people from HIV / AIDS.

A protein-enhanced protein from the human body's immune system was established to protect female monkeys from the HIV virus. The plan, developed the formula in the form of a jelly that can be used to prevent human infection of sexually transmitted HIV. In laboratory tests, the compound is able to protect cells from the HIV virus attacks during a full day.

This means, in theory, people who use the jelly is protected from chemical attack HIV / AIDS at least 24 hours prior to have sex. Maximum in front, side effects of the jelly is known to have been human. Then, preventive medicine is tested in the level effective prevent infection of HIV / AIDS in the high-risk groups.

Next, Offord and colleagues will develop a cheaper and easier to make these molecules. As known, HIV can produce cells in the human bloodstream, the cells in the blood (leukosit). Cell-white blood cells that usually fight the virus when attacked, will not be against HIV.

This can happen because HIV is a retrovirus or a similar virus that can breed in human blood. Later, the virus attacks a cell-type of white blood cell, including limfosit, called "T-4" or T-helper (helper), which is also known as CD-4 cells. To be able to infected CD-4, HIV requires receptor - one or a group of nerve cells and other cells that function to identify a specific stimulus that comes from outside or in the body - which is called CCR5.

According to research Offord and his team, who have a lot of CD-4 cells with little CCR5 almost be safe from HIV infection. Cells that act as carriers of immune system chemicals called regulated on activation normal T expressed and secreted (Rantes). This is Rantes which are developed by a team leader Offord to prevent HIV infection.