"The best way to either eliminate the virus or allow the immune system to suppress residual virus is to treat someone as early as possible after infection so as not to allow a substantial reservoir of the virus to take hold, " Fauci told CNN.
The hormones suppress the immune system and also produce natural steroids to help support the baby.
The weird part:In cancer no drug should suppress the immune system, so Ariad's approach seemed inadvisable.
Using these genetic profiles, transplant doctors should be able to assess the best way to suppress the immune system.
Instead of using anti-inflammatory drugs simply to suppress the immune system, it might be possible to tweak it back to its normal behaviour.
Biogen's Amevive has already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, although it does appear to suppress the immune systems of a handful of patients.
In most people, this would only be of passing interest, but the woman suffers from inflammatory bowel disease and takes powerful drugs to suppress her immune system.
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Geron's current CEO, Thomas Okarma , believes the first uses of embryonic stem cells as a therapy will have to make use of powerful drugs that suppress the immune system.
The drug works by tripping a cellular switch that was discovered serendipitously by scientists studying an unrelated drug--Rapamune, a Wyeth chemical used to suppress the immune systems of organ transplant patients.
Although the medicines work in different ways, all of them basically aim to do the same thing: to suppress the immune system, which appears in MS patients to attack the protective sheaths surrounding nerves.
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With the drugs currently available, Wiens will have to take medication for the rest of his life to suppress his immune system so that his body will be less likely to reject the new tissues.
The Kepners knew a double hand transplant meant Kepner would have to take drugs to suppress his immune system for the rest of his life (like any transplant, the recipient's immune system could attack the new organ as a foreign object).
If these drugs, which tend to suppress the immune system, are given in doses that are too high, the immune system can be compromised, says Robert Summers, a professor in gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Iowa who helped run the trials.
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Some researchers worried an mTOR drug would suppress patients' immune systems, as Rapamune does by design.
His research began after a patient was identified in Berlin who stopped his drug treatment on a number of occasions and then ceased it altogether, to find his immune system was continuing to suppress the virus on its own.
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