Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Psoriasis Associated with HIV Protection

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, a disease where the immune system attacks the body itself. The result is skin reddened, itchy and scaly.

More recently, scientists found that people with psoriasis have a genetic variation that help protect themselves from adverse HIV-1 virus.

Researchers found that people with psoriasis genetic variation similar to the HIV controller, people infected with HIV-1 but is able to defend themselves so that HIV infection does not progress to AIDS.

Scientists observe the 1700 patients with psoriasis and nearly 3600 people without psoriasis. Research results indicate that psoriasis is significantly pendrita able to defend themselves from the adverse effects of HIV-1.

The study was conducted by Haoyan Chen of the University of California at San Francisco. Research published in the journal Public Library of Science last February 16, 2012.

According to researchers, the results indicate that psoriasis penbelitian is a malfunction of the gene variations are supposed to protect the body from disease.

Further studies are needed to understand why autoimmune diseases appear. In this way, the defense mechanisms of HIV and efforts to address HIV / AIDS can be pursued.
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