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Title: Vitamin E VERY IMPORTANT study says
Post by: bimazek on January 31, 2007, 02:45:34 am

        treatment interruption - use vitamin E study says

      on: January 29, 2007, 06:40:42 PM

vitamin E supplementation may interfere with the emergence of drug-resistant HIV-1 variants archived in the resting cell reservoir and delay or limit virus rebound upon treatment interruptions.


: AIDS. 2005 May 20;19

    In vitro suppression of latent HIV-1 activation by vitamin E: potential clinical implications.

        * Heredia A,
        * Davis C,
        * Amoroso A,
        * Taylor G,
        * Le N,
        * Bamba D,
        * Redfield RR.

    Division of Clinical Research, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.

    We evaluated the effect of vitamin E in controlling HIV-1 production upon activation of the patients' reservoir of resting CD4 lymphocytes in tissue culture experiments. The addition of vitamin E to patients' cultures resulted in significantly reduced levels of p24 virus production (P = 0.0015). These results suggest that vitamin E supplementation may interfere with the emergence of drug-resistant HIV-1 variants archived in the resting cell reservoir and delay or limit virus rebound upon treatment interruptions.

Title: Re: Vitamin E VERY IMPORTANT study says
Post by: bimazek on February 09, 2007, 04:42:45 am

Administration of vitamin E suppresses CD95L mRNA expression and protects T cells of HIV-1-infected individuals from CD95-mediated apoptosis.

Our data suggest that the survival and differentiation of HIV-specific CD8(+) T cells may be compromised by CD95/Fas apoptosis induced by FasL-expressing HIV-infected cells.   

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