New Approach To Targeting The Hidden Reservoir Of HIV

Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 01:21 in Health & Medicine

The drugs used to treat individuals infected with HIV-1 keep the virus under control but do not eliminate it from the body, some remains hidden in immune cells known as resting CD4+ T cells. However, researchers have now developed an in vitro system that faithfully mimics the situation in people and used it to identify a compound that can get at this hidden HIV-1 and eliminate it from the cells.

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