Sunday, November 30, 2008

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World AIDS day: my foolish optimism

I do not smoke, do not shoot coke, and drink a little 'wine just because you have to do it, but these days, if the police stop me, mistaking me for a junkie in the throes of alcoholic delirium.
What happens is that the idea of \u200b\u200bhaving started HAART is galvanizing me like few things in life.
Knowing that I am now doing what it should be, that is my part in making your ass to the virus, it gives me a strength I did not remember much from ... my doctor was ecstatic, almost as much as me, when asked "how are you? "I said" by God! " :-).

But I am a pessimist by nature, and I always look into things that may not go ... but in this case I can not find it.

After the first few weeks of despair, almost a year ago, I began to discover stories of people who lived by - and good - with the virus and then put aside the despair I began to look more carefully to what surrounds us ... and I realized one thing: even with all the dead who did, this virus has been one of the things "better" that could happen ...

Think about it. A latent virus
probably for centuries explodes in the early eighties of the twentieth century.
At any other time in history would have decimated the human race, other than fever or English.
Instead, he had bad luck, and met some epochal revolutions.

First, the long wave of sexual liberation.
Millions of people who discovered the freedom to love, you are not a little pissed the idea that a virus would endanger this achievement.
Then the gay liberation movement.
If this virus had not mowed actors, singers, dancers ... and homosexuals, that is, people who by choice or condition had a sex life more "risky" (
if you can not marry you tend to more partner ) if it had not seemed simply hateful and racist in the eyes of those who began to gain their social status, had no opposition "ideological" so determined.
So every day, from day one, millions of dollars are spent for thirty years, while in the star system around the world of show business, industry and politics - even if only for the sake of image - repeat the mantra of "All united against AIDS" and every legitimate effort to research.
Finally, the information technology boom, which in a few years it has colonized anything, medical research in the first place (Think the easiest thing, what it means to do clinical trials without the use of computers, if only to take into account how patients should be ...).

In a few years, this disease is capsized on a lot of work, money and technology I ever seen in history, and took only 15 years because the "plague of the millennium" almost starting to become a chronic disease.

I do not know if it will defeat HIV in 2010, 2015 or when , but I know one thing: that is a race to the Moon or the "Star Wars" to Ronald Reagan have fielded so many energy in a short time, I know that if HIV also had never defeated and we were all destined to live ... to HAART up to 95 years, what is happening is changing medicine, the world.

Suddenly, medical research, which now did not know where to turn (I remember a famous quote about a "fundamental" many years ago:
cancer now feel the dust of the walls ) has discovered new instruments, he began to think to take bolder and more original, and everyday ideas that once would have made me laugh even in science fiction are discussed seriously, and someone bet on it. Think

this poor virus, which turns any side is someone trying to plant them in the ass, if not the integrase inhibitor is a nucleoside non-nucleoside, if not this is the protease, or that of a merger, while the garage is heated and CCR5 inhibitor via inhibition for each class ... and there are more teams of molecules pissed.
Think of how many people we love would still be here if the fight against cancer had the same luck.

Well, I will try, because I'm afraid to be terribly disappointed, but I can not be pessimistic: somewhere, the cavalry is coming.
And now, Call me crazy.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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cells from a new target for antiviral drugs? The hero that we have within

An experimental drug has treated guinea pigs infected with the virus of a fatal hemorrhagic fever, resulting in the hope of its use in a wide range of viral diseases, including influenza, hepatitis C, HIV, Ebola and others were claimed by U.S. researchers.

" this is a completely new strategy to create antiviral drugs," said dr. Philip Thorpe, professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas, whose research appeared in the journal Nature Medicine .
Thorpe explained that instead of attack the virus directly, bavituximab, manufactured by Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, takes advantage of a defense mechanism used by the virus to escape the immune system.
When cells are attacked by a virus, which causes the emergence of a fat molecule called phosphatidylserine, which is normally within the cell and emerge outside.
" is like wearing clothes the contrary," says Thorpe.
Bavituximab , a genetically engineered antibody, search and attaches itself to fat molecules, and signals in this way the immune system, so that may give rise to the attack.

"when injected into the bloodstream, bavituximab circulates through the body until it finds these fat molecules have emerged, and it binds to these "says Thorpe.
" in the case of viral infection, this link shows a red flag to the immune system, forcing the development of defensive white blood cells that attack infected cells [as shown] .

Thorpe points out that the antiviral drugs "conventional" try to exploit certain properties of the virus, but are frequently defeated by mutations in the virus themselves.
Taking aim at a point [the constant changes] of the infected cells of the host organism, bavituximab is probably less subject to lose effectiveness because of mutations of the virus.

In this study, Thorpe and colleagues evaluated a group of guinea pigs in an advanced state of infection with a type of virus Lassa fever, a disease that affects a part of West Africa.
half of the animals treated with single drug have been treated. In Guinea, where researchers have used the drug in combination with ribavirin (a drug that inhibits viral replication) survived 63% of the population.

Thorpe says that these results suggest that the drug may be effective [also] to other types of hemorrhagic viruses like Ebola and Marburg.
Furthermore, this emergence of fat molecules also occur in cells infected by several other viruses such as influenza, smallpox and rabies.
The Peregrine Pharmaceuticals is conducting Phase I trials on patients with hepatitis C and HIV, and more advanced studies (Phase II) on patients with cancer. Steven King, president and chief executive of Peregrine has made clear its belief that the drug "has tremendous potential." The research co-funded by the National Institutes of Health USA.
The news was originally reported by Gexgex on Lilanew .

on PubMed there is still no literature on the drug itself, but three articles on this particular of diseased cells to "turn coat", as the interviewee. On Clinicaltrials.gov there are some 'studies, six, of which only one HIV + patients, but not as such, but as with HCV, it is a phase I study to determine safety and tolerability in short, we are quite a few 'early, but the drug does not look like one, or at least the manufacturer seems to believe, as other studies are in oncology, and joined the gold standard of treatment ... This is the page on the manufacturer as Bavituximab Anti-Viral E this is a page on the mechanism of operation, including a long movie ...

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Should I Be Worried If My Fingers Go White



A year ago, I left frightened by the Hospital with the diagnosis "positive."
have changed many things, I do not think you have become "better", I just realized that life goes on, and that there is light or tragic basically depends on us.
And this is the point of this post. I think it is a good song.
instills courage and remember that, in the worst moments, we are not alone, if we remember to believe in ourselves .

truth That a hero lies Oh oooh Lord knows
Theres a hero Is there a hero
If you look inside your heart If you look in your heart
You dont have to be afraid not gotta be scared
Of what you are than what you


Theres an answer There is an answer
If you reach into your soul If the circles in your soul
And the sorrow That You know And you know desperation
Will melt away will dissolve

And then a hero comes along

And then a hero comes
With the strength to carry on With the strength to go on
And you cast your Fears aside and throw your fears
And you know you can survive And you know you can survive

So When You feel like hope is gone

So when you feel that there is no hope
Look inside you and be strong Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth And, after all, you'll see the truth
That a hero lies in you What is a hero lies in you

It's a long road

The road is long
When you face the world alone When you face the world alone
No One Reaches out a hand No one reaches out
For you to hold Why you take it

You can find love

[But] you can find love
Search within yourself If you If you search within yourself And
the emptiness you felt And the emptiness you feel
Will Disappear disappear

And then a hero comes along

And then a hero comes
With the strength to carry on With the strength to go forward
And you cast your Fears aside and throw your fears
And you know you can survive And you know you can survive
So When You feel like hope is gone So when feel that there is no hope
Look inside you and be strong Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth And, after all, you'll see
in you That a hero lies in you

God knows
Dreams are hard to follow [As for] the dreams are hard to follow
But dont let anyone But do not let anyone
Them Tear away, hey yeah throw them away
Hold on Hold on
There Will Be Tomorrow There will be a tomorrow
In time And, in time,
You'll find the way will find the way

And then a hero comes along

E then a hero comes
With the strength to carry on With the strength to go on
And you cast your Fears aside and throw your fears
And you know you can survive And you know you can survive
So When You feel like hope is gone So when you feel that there is no hope
Look inside you and be strong Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth And, after all, you'll see the truth
That a hero lies in you That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you That a hero lies in you
Mhhh
That a hero lies in That a hero lies in
You Te

Friday, November 21, 2008

Value Of 5mg Of Valium

How were the names of the molecules

The names of the molecules are curious ...
I have always wondered what they meant ... For example, in monoclonal antibodies, where the "tail" may be ZUMAB or XIMAB.
I already knew the names of the molecules are composed of one part fantasy, and part of which refers to the class / function, so thanks to Google, I have taken the plunge: ...

ZUMAB is a new word, a combination that indicates that we are faced with a humanized monoclonal antibody. The class is opposed to
XIMAB, which are chimeric monoclonal antibodies.

All monoclonal antibodies are born from the meeting of specific antibody developed in mice and mouse myeloma cells (myeloma cells is used because it is a tumor replicates madly in practice is the yeast antibody). The difference between the two is that the chimeric still retain much of the genetic structure of mice, so that the human body tends to react and produce antibodies for antibodies ... humanized versions instead steal some of this genetic mouse antibody, and then make it more "acceptable" to the human body.
If you rodesse increasingly curiosity, I suggest a very interesting presentation, here.

Friday, November 14, 2008

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Seven days with pastiglioni

And so, I'm already past seven days. Fourteen

pills down the gullet.

Well could have been worse, side effects are there, but bearable and down, when the worst thing is worthy of a cold, fever Manzoni who made an appearance this afternoon, blocking the airway as even former employees of Alitalia can do . Today

third blood collection and short detour to the doctor, because I must have thrown the recipe dell'antidepressivo between the paper, is a week that do hunt with no luck at this point is the only rational response.

Anyways', who lives sneeze ...