Word: vitalize
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When HTLV-III invades the body it infects certain white blood cells and, possibly, other cells vital to the body's defense and maintenance. The primary target known to scientists is the T-helper lymphocyte, called "the general" of white blood cells because it helps orchestrate the body's defense. The AIDS virus entwines itself in the fundamental genetic material at the cell's nucleus, where it uses the cell's own mechanisms to reproduce many-fold. The viruses then destroy that cell and escape to invade others...
Unlike alpha interferon, AZT can pass through the blood-brain barrier and counteract HTLV-III viruses that have invaded the brain. This may be vital to any successful anti-viral substance that is developed, Hirsch says, because otherwise the virus will simply sequester itself in the brain, the spinal cord, and the peripheral nerves. However, he says that alpha interferon--which is known to be useful in combatting some AIDS-related cancers--may prove valuable in combination with other anti-viral drugs. "[AZT] may turn out to be more useful," he says, "although I don't think we should jump...
...This isn't a protectionist bill," Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, said. "It is an anti-protectionist bill." He called it a remedy for "the trade cancer that is gnawing at the vital organs of our nation...
Harvard researchers announced yesterday that they have found a new gene of the AIDS virus which plays a vital role in virus reproduction and may provide new targets for developing a drug to fight the deadly disease...
...definitive prohibition on interviewing fugitives, even those wanted for murder. "We as journalists don't see ourselves as an extension of any law- enforcement agency," says John Seigenthaler, editorial page editor of USA Today. "What the journalist has to consider is whether the information to be gained is so vital that it tips the scale in favor of granting protection to a fugitive...