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These drugs were used by the researchers to understand the dynamics of HIV production. The researchers correlated the virus growth to the level of CD4, a type of white blood cell, and used three types of drugs to inhibit infection...
Each team administered the drugs to HIV patients with low T4 cell counts, causing a significant decrease in virus population. The drugs used by the researchers inhibit reverse transcriptase or protease, two enzymes essential to virus reproduction...
...significance of Folkman's finding lies in the protein's ability to inhibit angiogenesis (blood vessel growth), said Noel Bouck, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University Medical School. "In order to grow, tumors must produce new blood vessels," she said...
...discovery represents a whole new way to inhibit cancer growth," O'Reilly said. But he warns that researchers are still years away from clinical use. "By all means we have not cured cancer," he said...
...AIDS and tuberculosis, the body makes itself sicker. The second process stymied by thalidomide is the creation of new blood vessels, which is crucial to the development of arms and legs in the fetus. The eventual goal of researchers is to alter thalidomide somehow so that it continues to inhibit TNF without harming nascent arteries and veins...