L-arginine: a therapeutic option for AIDS/HIV infection?

Abstract:

:Numerous studies implicate cellular immunological effector systems in the partial containment of virus replication during the early stages of HIV infection. Immunostimulatory therapeutic regimes designed to enhance virus clearance are therefore theoretically attractive, but are accompanied by the risk of concomitant activation of HIV replication. Supra-normal levels of L-arginine have been shown to induce broad immune stimulation in vitro and in vivo, but do not increase HIV gene expression in vitro. These observations, together with the lack of toxicity of this agent, suggest a novel therapeutic approach to HIV disease.

journal_name

Med Hypotheses

journal_title

Medical hypotheses

authors

Wrightham MN,Cann AJ,Sewell HF

doi

10.1016/0306-9877(92)90101-h

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-07-01 00:00:00

pages

236-9

issue

3

eissn

0306-9877

issn

1532-2777

pii

0306-9877(92)90101-H

journal_volume

38

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