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Interferon Injectors

I have seen some video's as of late on 'Interferon Injectors' and read up a little on wikipedia. Here is a quote:

"Interferons (IFNs) are natural proteins produced by the cells of the immune system of most vertebrates in response to challenges by foreign agents such as viruses, parasites and tumor cells. Interferons belong to the large class of glycoproteins known as cytokines. Interferons are produced by a wide variety of cells in response to the presence of double-stranded RNA, a key indicator of viral infection. Interferons assist the immune response by inhibiting viral replication within host cells, activating natural killer cells and macrophages, increasing antigen presentation to lymphocytes, and inducing the resistance of host cells to viral infection. When the antigen is presented to matching T and B cells, those cells multiply and strategically and specifically wipe out the foreign substance. That is why antigen presentation is so important to the immune response."

Now it says, effective against double-standed rNA and not 'single stranded' which is what HIV is from what I understand. Would they be of limited use against helping the immune system against HIV? Is this basically what a vaccination is about?
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Re: Interferon Injectors

Hello rbolo29,
The immune system has so many different ways in different tissues of attacking intruders that it is hard to say what might help us best against HIV. I have heard (but I am not authoritative) that human cells have a way of attacking and deactivating intruding RNA. This is a general method employed by all mammals that have been carefully studied but it depends on specific proteins, which differ from species to species. They are not totally potent against all RNA, since RNA is vital to life. Normally they control RNA infections well enough so that, even if not completely eliminating the infection, we are unaware that there has been an infection. HIV has evolved to evade this human immune reaction. However, it cannot evade the similar but slightly different immune reactions in our primate cousins.

Frustrating! But our immune systems have a large set of overlapping tools to combat infections. There is almost certainly something that can be primed to work against HIV.

Lawrence
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