Anti-HIV Agents (Lysozyme)

Protein in Tears, Urine of Pregnant Women Has Powerful Anti-HIV Effect

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 22nd, 1999

New York University School of Medicine and U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have identified an ordinary protein present in tears and saliva as the long-sought mystery substance in the urine of pregnant women that is a powerful anti-HIV agent.

The new finding helps explain why HIV cannot be transmitted through saliva, and opens the way to an entirely new class of anti-HIV medicines, according to a new study by the NYU and NIH scientists.

The researchers, led by Sylvia Lee-Huang, PhD, professor of Biochemistry at NYU, and Hao-Chia Chen, PhD, research chemist, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that...

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