molecule to block EBV
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:33 pm
Sort of think a EBV forum might be useful.
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showar ... ibid=16467 (this is a commercial supplement site - fyi)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21673108
Using molecular mapping of an immune memory cell ‘bio-antenna’ that EBV hijacks for its own ends, a Danish team has identified a tiny molecule that can foil the process and may be manipulated to block EBV’s role in immune system cancers.
The Epstein-Barr herpes virus (HHV-4) causes mononucleosis but is also associated with immune system cancers and autoimmune diseases. Infection with EBV means that the B cells, which are the primary memory cells of the immune system, are being hijacked.
Now researchers at the University of Copenhagen report they’ve found a way to regulate a special receptor or “bio-antenna” that plays a vital part when EBV infects us - and when this infection appears to be mutating into cancer of the immune system. (Their report was published online Aug 19 by The Journal of Biological Chemistry.)
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showar ... ibid=16467 (this is a commercial supplement site - fyi)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21673108
Using molecular mapping of an immune memory cell ‘bio-antenna’ that EBV hijacks for its own ends, a Danish team has identified a tiny molecule that can foil the process and may be manipulated to block EBV’s role in immune system cancers.
The Epstein-Barr herpes virus (HHV-4) causes mononucleosis but is also associated with immune system cancers and autoimmune diseases. Infection with EBV means that the B cells, which are the primary memory cells of the immune system, are being hijacked.
Now researchers at the University of Copenhagen report they’ve found a way to regulate a special receptor or “bio-antenna” that plays a vital part when EBV infects us - and when this infection appears to be mutating into cancer of the immune system. (Their report was published online Aug 19 by The Journal of Biological Chemistry.)