http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/...
This same team of "geniuses" also claimed to have "cured" a variety of cancers. Skepticism is more than warranted, IMHO! So I present the following more for FUN, than actual science FACT!
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WHAT A DAY! HIV CURES ON THE MENU!
First was Gilead with announcing its "HIV Eradication Program" which after further research and discussions with researchers does not address the biggest issue with HIV, its ability to go through the Blood/Brain barrier, showing it Eradication system more of a PR stunt than an actual program,trying I THINK for a fast track to human trials! Then I came across this little gem:
http://www.saisei-mirai.or.jp/...
A Japanese team, led by Japanese-American Nobuto Yamamoto, Ph.D., claimed
(in the below 2009 FOCIS conference abstract) that 8-13 weeks of this 2nd
generation GcMAF cured an undisclosed percentage of 24 (total) (ex-)HIV+
patients.
T.101. Treatment of HIV-Infected Patients with Gc Protein-Derived
Macrophage Activating Factor (GcMAF) and Its Coned Derivative
(GcMAFc) Eradicates HIV-Infection
Nobuto Yamamoto1, Masumi Ueda1, Kazuya Hashinaka1,
Theodore Sery1, Charles Benson2. 1Socrates Institute for
Therapeutic Immunology, Philadelphia, PA; 2University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Serum Gc protein (known as vitamin D-binding protein) is
the precursor for the principal macrophage activating factor
(MAF). The MAF precursor activity of serum Gc protein of HIV
infected patients was lost or reduced because Gc protein is
deglycosylated by serum á-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (Nagalase)
secreted from HIV-infected cells. Since Nagalase is the
intrinsic component of gp120, serum Nagalase was already
complexed with anti-HIV immunoglobulin G (IgG) in patient
blood stream. The IgG-bound virions were infectious and
retained Nagalase activity, leading to immunosuppression.
Stepwise treatment of purified serum Gc protein or its cloned
Gc protein with immobilized â-galactosidase and sialidase
generated the most potent MAF (termed GcMAF or GcMAFc,
respectively) ever discovered, which produces no side effect in
humans. Macrophages activated by intramuscular administration
of GcMAF or GcMAFc (100 ng/patient) developed a large
amount of Fc-receptors as well as enormous variation of
receptors that phagocytize IgG bound and unbound HIV virions.
Cells harboring HIV provirus were unstable and spontaneously
released the virions at a high rate. After less than 18 weekly
intramuscular administrations of 100 ng GcMAF or GcMAFc to
twenty-four nonanemic patients, they exhibited healthy
control level of Nagalase activity, indicating eradication of
HIV-infection. Since GcMAFc has a potentmitogenic activity on
myeloid progenitor cells (MPC), intravenous administration of
GcMAFc allowed rapid interaction of GcMAFc with MPC in bone
marrow and the systemic cell counts of the activated
macrophages increased to 220-fold in 2 days. Weekly intravenous
administration of 100 ng GcMAFc to HIV-infected patients
eradicated HIV-infection in 8-13 weeks.
OK, OK, yep they are at it again with another miracle cure. Here's to hoping, I guess! I wonder why neither Gilead or tese folks suggest spinal taps to check for the presents of HIV in the spinal fluid? I happen to have had a spinal infection/issue about a year ago, and when they tested MY spinal fluid, they not only found HIV, but ALSO an "Unknown Compound". That started a year of spinal taps every 3 months to tack the levels of HIV in my fluid and this "unknown Compound", which they quietly hope is the experimental drug that I am on. The good news is that while this is being studied, AS PAINFUL AS IT IS FOR ME, there has been a steady decline in the levels of HIV in my spinal fluid since this study began while I have remained undetectable in my blood stream.
I hate to say this, but if this continues it is entirely possible that they WILL ERADICATE HIV from my system. UNFORTUNATELY, to date I am the ONLY patient that is living with this medication, (I don't know how many they have tried it on ... I just know that the other "human patients" died, while I am THRIVING ON IT - Just proves the point that every drugs acts differently, and the human body is a VERY complex bio-mechanical machine, which we are just beginning to understand!)
The researchers and my Doctor are quick to point out that this is WONDERFUL, but it does not mean I will be cured, no one knows if my immune system will heal itself, once it is no longer under attack. My Doctor has said to me many time that the human body has an AMAZING ability to heal itself, if we just give it time and space to do so!
So in July I will get another Spinal Tap, and I am hoping for more good news, the continued decline of HIV in my brain and spinal fluids! But I am not delusional enough to believe that even if they find zero HIV in my spinal fluid that this journey is in anyway over!
4:53 PM PT: I removed a link to an "article" in Nature, which turned out in fact to be an AD, not a real article, MY BAD! I have removed said link, the content stands on its own, without giving giving more "eye share" to what I think must be a group of quacks!