[URL]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21931-breast-milk-seems-to-kill-hiv.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health[/URL]
[QUOTE]Is breast best for inhibiting HIV? An unknown component of breast milk kills HIV particles and virus-infected cells, as well as blocking HIV-transmission in mice with a human immune system.
Even if babies born to HIV-positive mothers avoid infection during birth, around 15 per cent contract HIV during early childhood. Since the virus can get
into milk, [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16922771.900-breast-is-still-best.html"]breastfeeding[/URL] was one possible suspect.
To investigate further, Angela Wahl at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her colleagues created mice with human bone marrow, liver
and thymus tissues that all became infected with HIV if the mice were given an [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12354-tonsils-may-help-transmit-hiv-during-oral-sex.html"]oral dose[/URL] of the virus. However, if the rodents were fed breast milk
contaminated with HIV, the virus wasn't transmitted.
Previous research had hinted at breast milk's antiviral properties, but it was unclear if they would prevent transmission of HIV. "We have shown that
milk has an intrinsic innate ability to kill HIV," says J. Victor Garcia, who supervised the work.
The hunt is now on for the mysterious ingredient in breast milk that inhibits the virus. If it can be identified, it might even be used to prevent other
forms of HIV transmission, such as sexual transmission.
Why do some breastfed babies born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus, if breast milk doesn't transmit HIV? It's possible that suckling on
cracked nipples may expose babies to virus in their mother's blood.
Journal reference: [URL="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002732"][I]PLoS Pathogens, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002732[/I][/URL]
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Isn't breast milk one of the few ways you can catch HIV?
Sobotnik shouldn't have any problems with HIV then.
[QUOTE=koeniginator;36372470]Isn't breast milk one of the few ways you can catch HIV?[/QUOTE]
Last line of the OP explains that for you.
Unfortunately it's going to be years before we see this actually used for humans.
Fortunately, hey, a new light of hope.
inject boob milk into blood
hiv cured
At every clinic, there's a nurse ready to deliver the cure!
[QUOTE=koeniginator;36372470]Isn't breast milk one of the few ways you can catch HIV?[/QUOTE]
yeah, if the woman has hiv.
It's been in the breasts all along!
-snip not my account-
What's going on in here
Who would've know that the teets held the cure all along.
What the fuck check more diseases on tits this is [h2]GENIUS[/h2]
So uh, how do we get enough of it to actually be viable as a cure then?
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;36372481]Fetish justified.[/QUOTE]
I know what you're thinking, it's not gonna work :v:
So I read the journal it mentions. It makes no mention of it killing HIV.
it [I]does[/I] mention a "strong inhibitory effect" however.
[quote][B]Infected children acquire HIV from their mother in utero, intrapartum or by ingesting their mother's breast milk which can contain both HIV particles (cell-free) and HIV-infected cells (cell-associated).[/B] Although breastfeeding is attributed to a significant number of HIV infections in children, most breastfed infants remain uninfected despite prolonged and repeated exposure to HIV. This limited transmission has led to two apparently contradictory roles for milk in HIV infection: vector of transmission or vehicle of protection? Milk has a strong inhibitory effect on HIV infection in vitro. However, this has never been demonstrated in an in vivo system. In the present study, we address this paradox in a bone marrow/liver/thymus (or BLT) humanized mouse model of oral transmission of cell-free and cell-associated HIV. [B]We demonstrate that human breast milk has potent HIV inhibitory activity that can prevent oral transmission of cell-free and cell-associated HIV in vivo.[/B] Our results provide key insight into oral HIV transmission and the protective role of milk. However, since transmission can and does occur in some instances after continued exposure to HIV in milk, we demonstrate that oral HIV transmission can be efficiently prevented in BLT humanized mice by the systemic administration of antiretrovirals.[/quote]
[QUOTE=J!NX;36372530]inject boob milk into blood
hiv cured[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;Au0GRWUbqN8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au0GRWUbqN8[/video]
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;36373686]So uh, how do we get enough of it to actually be viable as a cure then?[/QUOTE]
Genetically modified cows that give human milk? I think there was a news thread on Facepunch about it some time ago.
More reasons for me to love boobs.
Lovely.
I wonder if men's lactation works for this as well
[QUOTE=koeniginator;36372470]Isn't breast milk one of the few ways you can catch HIV?[/QUOTE]
Momma needs to put some lotion on her nipples.
Or baby oil.
If you browse FP and get HIV you're fucked.
[QUOTE=Enaicavor;36374607]If you browse FP and get HIV you're fucked.[/QUOTE]
No one on FP is going to far enough to get HIV anyways.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;36373686]So uh, how do we get enough of it to actually be viable as a cure then?
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Hey. We already got blood and sperm donors.
Why not milk donors?
Oh noes! I have AIDS!
[B][I]Quick![/I][/B] Let me suckle on your boobies!
[QUOTE=Priori;36376899]Boobs are truly great.[/QUOTE]
A true breast lover loves all breasts, regardless of the size.
As strange is the idea is, if they can indentify the Antiviral Compound in the milk, we might as well have a new medicine to cure HIV, [B]if[/B] there are people willing to donate the milk that is.
[QUOTE=calebc789;36377022]As strange is the idea is, if they can indentify the Antiviral Compound in the milk, we might as well have a new medicine to cure HIV, [B]if[/B] there are people willing to donate the milk that is.[/QUOTE]
I don't think that will be a major problem, plenty of people would be willing to donate the milk.
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