HIV Encephalitis

Fibroblast Growth Factor Has Protective Effects

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 7th, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer - Researchers at the University of California have shown that fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1) can protect the central nervous system from HIV related damage.

"Approximately two-thirds of patients with human immunodeficiency virus encephalitis (HIVE) show cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration, while one-third are cognitively unimpaired and their neuronal populations are preserved," I.P. Everall and colleagues explained in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology.

Everall et al. suspected that neurons from patients with normal cognitive function were shielded from damage by endogenous...

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