Potential new drugs plug brain's biological 'vacuum cleaner' and target HIV
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
In an advance toward eliminating pockets of infection in the brain that help make HIV disease incurable, scientists report the development of new substances that first plug the biological vacuum cleaner that prevents anti-HIV drugs from reaching the brain and then revert to an active drug to treat HIV. The advance promises to allow medications to cross the so-called "blood-brain barrier" and treat brain diseases.