Experimentelle baboons to humans and starts AIDS Registry
The doctors prepared Thursday for an AIDS experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow. The procedure is controversial tent, because baboons have proven resistant against HIV-1, the first virus Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
AIDS Jeff Getty is given the transplant at San Francisco General Hospital later on Thursday. But before he subjected to radiation “in its place in the bone marrow for new cells,” a spokesman for the hospital said.
The infusion, similar to a blood transfusion, lasted half an hour and does not require surgery. The procedure is carried out by researchers from University of California, San Francisco and the University of Pittsburgh.
It is for the first time a transplant of bone marrow cells or infusion from one species to another - known as xenotransplant - has been tried with the help of specific scientific have been admitted to the approach of this study , Said the researcher.
Researchers hope that when the infusion is successful, the news is the bone marrow produce virus-resistant T cells in the blood. In theory, would help ensure that Getty prevention of opportunistic infections, which can be fatal to the development of AIDS.
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