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Aug 13

Naringenin inhibits production of hepatitis C virus

Sat, 08/13/2011 - 08:49 — admin
Naringenin inhibits the assembly and long-term production of infectious hepatitis C virus particles through a PPAR-mediated mechanism.
Goldwasser J
, Cohen PY, Lin W, Kitsberg D, Balaguer P, Polyak SJ, Chung RT, Yarmush ML, Nahmias Y.

Source

Center for Engineering in Medicine, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS:

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects 3% of the world population and is the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Current standard of care is effective in only 50% of the patients, poorly tolerated, and associated with significant side effects and viral resistance. Recently, our group and others demonstrated that the HCV lifecycle is critically dependent on host lipid metabolism and that its production is metabolically modulated.

METHODS:

The JFH1/Huh7.5.1 full lifecycle model of HCV was used to study the antiviral effects of naringenin on viral replication, assembly, and production. Activation of PPAR? was elucidated using GAL4-PPAR? fusion reporters, PPRE reporters, qRT-PCR, and metabolic studies. Metabolic results were confirmed in primary human hepatocytes

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Mar 18

Amoxicillin and many other drugs can raise the viral load millions of points, overnight

Fri, 03/18/2011 - 12:23 — admin

This is the results sent to me by one of my clients. She was prescribed Amoxicillin today, as she is experiencing a secondary condition, the flu. This secondary condition when combined with hep c offers us with hep c a difficult task as we are often sicker longer and with some more sever difficulties than people without hep c.

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Feb 23

What ever you gave me worked

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 13:35 — admin

From: Debra  
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:59 PM
To: Lloyd Wright
Subject: hello

Hi Lloyd

Thank you so very much for the d-mannose U-Track.. I looked it up on the internet and most articles say that most people had UTI infections off and on for years and couldn't get rid of it until thay found mannose.  They also mentioned E-Coli in almost every article.  I didn't feel like I had UTI,  I'm positive it was my kidneys but, then again I'm not a doctor.  I really feel like the kidney problem was related to my liver and the HCV because of the brown urine and back pain.

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Aug 04

Depression overlooked in patients with hepatitis C; compromising HCV therapy

Wed, 08/04/2010 - 20:39 — admin

Lower patient productivity and higher healthcare benefit costs add to burden of HCV infection

Researchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland (the NORDynamIC project group) have observed that depressive symptoms in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are commonly overlooked in routine clinical interviews, and that treatment-induced depression compromises the outcome of HCV therapy. A second U.S.

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