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...taken a junior faculty position at UCLA and moved his family back to California. He contacted Dr. Robert Schooley of the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, and together they embarked on a clinical trial of soluble CD4 in two dozen patients, many of them in the later stages of AIDS. Unfortunately, Ho and Schooley wound up proving that soluble CD4 doesn't work. In the process, however, they discovered something very interesting--that there were tens of thousands of infectious viral particles in their patients' bodies, a lot more than anyone had expected...
...Shaw had proved that there are high levels of virus in the first few weeks of infection. Ho and Schooley had already shown that there is a lot more virus in the end stages of AIDS than anyone had thought possible. The next question was obvious: What is going on during those middle years, when patients are still in relatively good health? Ho suspected that the answer could dramatically change the way doctors treated their HIV-positive patients...
...Right now, the Soluble t4 drug is the mostsought-after drug in the country," said Schooley...
...difference between the studies is thatMGH administers its version of Soluble t4 throughthe muscular system, while Deaconess administersan almost identical brand intravenously.Deaconess' intravenous method seems to fade fromthe bloodstream more quickly, Schooley said...
Both Harvard-affiliated studies, Schooley said,are only in "preliminary" stages of human testingand involve a small number of in-patient subjects...