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- eco57, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7And aging perhaps?
- imasuperDOTcom, on 11/17/2008, -3/+9A non-marjiuana plant on the front page! Digg, you never seize to amaze me.
- benicillin1, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1oh homonyms...
- Geist89, on 11/17/2008, -1/+1What do you have against cannabis, exactly? As far as my opinion regarding cannabis and HIV/AIDS, specifically, I think it may be a viable medicine to improve appetite in stable patients, but the immune suppression caused by some cannabinoids would make it unsafe in many patients.
- imasuperDOTcom, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1umm... Where in my comment did I said I had something against cannabis?
- grivad, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2Cease.
- marskid2, on 11/17/2008, -2/+2Oh great, first we lose manufacturing to the Chinese, then we lose the Olympic gold-medal lead, now they say they have HIV treatments. Before you know it, they're going to be manufacturing American flags. Oh wait....
- murk, on 11/17/2008, -1/+11Did we cure AIDS again?
- serif69, on 11/17/2008, -1/+4So a chemical derived from plants is going to be used to treat a disease? You don't say!
- musntSurfatWork, on 11/17/2008, -0/+0seriously, didn't this once happen to form penicillin?
- SenorBabyMan, on 11/17/2008, -3/+2Digg, where daily cure of AIDS happens
- Culex, on 11/17/2008, -0/+10Quick, let's ban the ***** out of it and arrest anyone who happens to have it laying around!
- BrokenVisage, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2Pretty much my comment word for word just from reading the title. Yay Hypocrisy!
- wolfboy2883, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Hmm, that's interesting... I don't see where this fits into the HIV equation perfectly though, since HIV attacks the cells (they don't just "wear out"). Must be something else to it.
- locojones, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1I think the point of it is this -- for the approximately 10 year period between the contraction of HIV and the development of end-stage AIDS, the immune system does a pretty good job waging war against the virus. Then it just becomes exhausted and depleted and essentially 'gives up.' The thesis of the article is that, to keep up with the war against the virus, the key immune cells undergo a great deal of division, which can lead to a shorter overall life span due to the shortening of the telomeres. So by adding this chemical, which preserves the telomeres, those same cells can divide for longer times without an appreciable negative impact, and continue fighting the virus long past when they might've given up or just died out.
- wolfboy2883, on 11/18/2008, -1/+1Hmm... I was under the impression that HIV replicates in the T-Cells outright, thus destroying the body's adaptive immune response before it has a chance to react (since it takes weeks for the body to mount an adaptive immune response, and most of the damage to the patient's immune system occurs in the acute phase of the infection). Without an adaptive immune response, the patient has no resource to fight viruses or cancer cells (antibody mediated immune response is only effective against recognizable foreign antigens such as bacteria and toxins). As far as a virus goes, HIV is the perfect storm since it replicates within and destroys the body's only virus-fighting system (helper T-Cells). The current anti-viral medications work by inhibiting the enzyme RNA-reverse-transcriptase, which prevents HIV from replicating its viral RNA. This, over time, can reduce the virus to levels undetectable in the bloodstream, but since it does not destroy the RNA strands themselves the virus will reemerge if treatment ceases. A way to safely "reboot" the immune system is the real Holy Grail of an AIDS cure.
- locojones, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1I think the point of it is this -- for the approximately 10 year period between the contraction of HIV and the development of end-stage AIDS, the immune system does a pretty good job waging war against the virus. Then it just becomes exhausted and depleted and essentially 'gives up.' The thesis of the article is that, to keep up with the war against the virus, the key immune cells undergo a great deal of division, which can lead to a shorter overall life span due to the shortening of the telomeres. So by adding this chemical, which preserves the telomeres, those same cells can divide for longer times without an appreciable negative impact, and continue fighting the virus long past when they might've given up or just died out.
- Cuchanu, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately the FDA is run by drug company stooges so any non prescription solution is crushed by regulation.
- monocyteLSU, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1You chastise the FDA, but let's not forget the Thalidomide debacle in the 1950s that was minimized to great extent in the US due to staunch FDA regulations.
- Cuchanu, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1I'm not saying they don't do any good.
- monocyteLSU, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1You chastise the FDA, but let's not forget the Thalidomide debacle in the 1950s that was minimized to great extent in the US due to staunch FDA regulations.
- rmeddy, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3I wonder if there was a place where hundreds if not thousand of species of Plant in which we haven't discovered exists, Like a Rainforest of some sort.
- Kraznoff, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2But can you smoke it?
- god613, on 11/17/2008, -3/+0And the award for the most vague title of the day goes to...
- jsilver123, on 11/17/2008, -1/+1interesting
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