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An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible
One needs to think outside of the box, as one of us (Ronald B Luftig) learned from many years as a mathematician, and a biophysicist. In this short Review, the need to focus on producing high levels of neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) to incoming and conformationally altered virus after it has bound t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2234407/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18093321 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-8518-5-12 |
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description | One needs to think outside of the box, as one of us (Ronald B Luftig) learned from many years as a mathematician, and a biophysicist. In this short Review, the need to focus on producing high levels of neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) to incoming and conformationally altered virus after it has bound to CD4(+ )cells is essential. Increasing the number of gp120 molecules on the surface of L-2 particles, could allow for an enhanced number of NAbs. The attempt at increasing CD8(+ )T cell responses in recent vaccine trials has not worked perhaps because it may have allowed HIV to enter into remote sanctuaries. Our approach focuses on increasing NAbs, before high levels of CD8(+ )T cells are produced. |
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spelling | pubmed-22344072008-02-08 An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible Zhong, Qiu Luftig, Ronald B J Immune Based Ther Vaccines Review One needs to think outside of the box, as one of us (Ronald B Luftig) learned from many years as a mathematician, and a biophysicist. In this short Review, the need to focus on producing high levels of neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) to incoming and conformationally altered virus after it has bound to CD4(+ )cells is essential. Increasing the number of gp120 molecules on the surface of L-2 particles, could allow for an enhanced number of NAbs. The attempt at increasing CD8(+ )T cell responses in recent vaccine trials has not worked perhaps because it may have allowed HIV to enter into remote sanctuaries. Our approach focuses on increasing NAbs, before high levels of CD8(+ )T cells are produced. BioMed Central 2007-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2234407/ /pubmed/18093321 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-8518-5-12 Text en Copyright © 2007 Zhong and Luftig; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Zhong, Qiu Luftig, Ronald B An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible |
title | An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible |
title_full | An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible |
title_fullStr | An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible |
title_full_unstemmed | An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible |
title_short | An HIV/AIDS Prophylactic vaccine is possible |
title_sort | hiv/aids prophylactic vaccine is possible |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2234407/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18093321 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-8518-5-12 |
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