AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18861926_ITM" title="Facts and information about Scientists begin testing drugs to protect against HIV dementia.">Scientists begin testing drugs to protect against HIV dementia.</a>

Close Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from The America's Intelligence Wire are available.

Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds

Scientists begin testing drugs to protect against HIV dementia.

The America's Intelligence Wire

| October 02, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From AP Worldstream)

Byline: LAURAN NEERGAARD

It's an Achilles' heel of HIV therapy: The AIDS virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, despite today's best medicines.

Now scientists are beginning to test drugs that may protect against the memory loss and other symptoms of so-called neuroAIDS, which afflicts at least one in five people with HIV and is becoming more common as patients live longer.

With almost 1 million Americans, and almost 40 million people worldwide, living with HIV, that is a a large and underrecognized toll.

"That means HIV is the commonest cause of cognitive dysfunction in young people worldwide," says Dr. Justin McArthur,…

View articles courtesy of your local library

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more


Brain damage found in HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy.: Newspaper article from: Mental Health Weekly Digest December 8, 2003 700+ words
...The results of our study raise the concern of brain injury in HIV subjects who are on treatment, even among those...any part of the nervous system, including the brain. Symptoms of HIV brain damage may include depression, memory loss...


Researchers make mouse/human model of HIV brain changes. (AIDS-related...: Newspaper article from: AIDS Weekly December 27, 1993 700+ words
...related encephalitis, a brain inflammation that...human tissues and HIV. The model should...the direct effect of HIV on the brain is still unclear...injected them and HIV into the brains of SCID mice. Once in the brain, the cells, called...


Antivirals may affect brain pathology in HIV.(Infectious Diseases)(human...: Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Walsh, Nancy April 15, 2008 700+ words
...less likely to develop primary HIV brain pathology than are those who never...the incidence of inflammatory HIV brain pathology (HBP) was approximately...efforts to understand the effects of HIV infection on the brain. The consortium is funded by...


Drug might lessen HIV brain impact.(UPI Science Report): News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack May 4, 2005 700+ words
...cross the blood-brain barrier. HIV is the retrovirus...job of controlling HIV in blood, but most...cross the blood-brain barrier very well...cause damage in the brain. And because people are living with HIV longer than ever...


HIV triggers brain tissue loss despite antiviral Tx: alcohol exacerbates...: Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Zoler, Mitchel L. September 15, 2003 700+ words
...synergistically interact with HIV infection to cause brain deterioration that is worse...month). Magnetic resonance brain imaging showed that both HIV infection and heavy drinking...with smaller volumes of brain tissue. HIV-infected patients who...


HIV triggers brain tissue loss despite antiviral Tx: alcohol exacerbates...: Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News Zoler, Mitchel L. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...synergistically interact with HIV infection to cause brain deterioration that is worse...Magnetic resonance brain imaging showed that both HIV infection and heavy drinking...with smaller volumes of brain tissue, he said. HIV-infected patients who...


HIV triggers brain loss despite antiviral therapy: heavy drinking exacerbates...: Magazine article from: Family Practice News Zoler, Mitchel L. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...synergistically interact with HIV infection to cause brain deterioration that is worse...month). Magnetic resonance brain imaging showed that both HIV infection and heavy drinking...with smaller volumes of brain tissue. HIV-infected patients who...


Scientists create animal model of how HIV affects brain. (Johns Hopkins...: Newspaper article from: AIDS Weekly December 21, 1992 700+ words
...can be used to study how HIV infects cells in the brain, researchers report...the neuron cells of the brain, proving that some strains of HIV can, in fact, infect...the infective process of HIV in the brain. "We can use this as...


Brain injury seen in HIV patients on HAART.(INFECTIOUS DISEASES)(highly active...: Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Mahoney, Diana May 15, 2009 700+ words
...Evidence of significant brain inflammation and neuronal...with clinically stable HIV infection suggests that...examine the effects of HIV on brain function and identify...This suggests that the brain injury process in HIV infection may have two...


Proteoglycans contribute to HIV-1 brain invasion.: Newspaper article from: Biotech Week August 11, 2004 700+ words
...virus, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) invades the brain and causes severe neuronal, astrocyte...in AIDS patients. "To gain access to the brain, HIV-1 must migrate through brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs...

For more facts and information, see all results

The AccessMyLibrary advertising network includes: