Questions about the human immunodeficiency virus
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qrt-pcr and short fragments
I plan to measure the effects of Tenofovir a Nucleotide analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitors useing qrt-pcr with HIV-RT as the rt enzyme. Tenofovir causes early termination of the reverse ...
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activate a drug using deoxycytidine kinase in vitro
I need to activate a drug similar to the way it is activated in the cell. My set of molecules called Nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NARTIs or NRTIs) need three phosphate groups to ...
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in-vitro inhibitor molecule count per reverse transcriptase count
I would like to examine the effects of etravirine in-vitro. How many molecules of Etravirine a HIV Reverse Transcriptase inhibitor are necessary to block a group of Reverse Transcriptase from acting ...
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HIV and T helper cells
As far as I know and could understand from reading about HIV, T helper cell is one of the main reasons to develop AIDS in patients infected with HIV virus, that because the absence of helper T cell ...
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Are there people cured of HIV by means of HAART?
I wonder if there people who were cured of HIV only by means of highly active anti retro-viral therapy (HAART) or other drugs rather than by bone marrow transplant?
I know that HAART can suppress HIV ...
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Is there a strong reason to be sceptical about the “cured HIV patient” being reported by mainstream media?
There's a story going round the news about a baby that was, apparently, cured of HIV using a cocktail of drugs at an early age. The story piqued my interest, but details seem scarce. One of the main ...
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HIV Rapid Tests
The hiv antigens that are used in the oral rapid tests, are they infectious? The tests do not contain any actual virus but I am curious if the antigens themselves could somehow create the virus on ...
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Are homozygous carriers of the CCR5-Δ32 allele fully immune to all known strains of HIV?
Or is there documented evidence of even one homozygous carrier contracting HIV and staying infected?
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Can the RNA in the HIV virus make viral enzymes without entering the nucleus?
If the provirus was not formed yet, can the virus make viral enzymes?
(I know that it already has some, but supposing it doesn't)
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How does herpes (HSV) infection suppress HIV?
HIV compromises the human body to defend against infection. Yet people who are infected with herpes are at less risk of developing AIDS.
How does this work?
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Why human body cannot defend against HIV? [closed]
Some says that HIV destroy IRF3, and some says HIV overruns T-cells.
