{"id":94249,"date":"2013-01-18T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=94249"},"modified":"2013-01-18T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:49:27","slug":"fight-against-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/fight-against-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight against AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superpotent human antibodies, synthesized in the laboratory, may point to a new course of action in the fight against the HIV-1 virus that causes AIDS.\u00a0 The group led by Brazilian immunologist Michel Nussenzweig of Rockefeller University in New York showed (in the October 25, 2012 issue of the journal <em>Nature<\/em>) that using a combination of these antibodies might prevent the virus from mutating and rendering medication ineffective.\u00a0 The study was conducted on mice that had artificially been given a human immune system, which makes them susceptible to the virus.\u00a0 By using five antibodies, some of the tested mice maintained undetectable levels of the virus for 60 days after the treatment.\u00a0 One advantage to this strategy compared to the antiretroviral cocktails is the absence of side effects because the antibodies are not foreign to the system.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think we can cure people like this, but we have to try,\u201d says Nussenzweig.\u00a0 The possibility of a cure exists, but also plausible would be an antibody treatment that needs to be used only once or twice a year, which would be a huge advantage over the current daily consumption of medicines to fight the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fight against AIDS","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-94249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94249"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=94249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}