herpes miracle

A Team from Ohio State University have found a way to increase the effectiveness of the therapy of using virus Herpes simplex, blocking the body's immune response to the virus. Work published November 25 in the journal Nature Medicine.

Viral - a method of cancer therapy based on the natural ability of viruses to kill (lyse) cells in which it multiplies. Thus genetically modified strains are used with a view to targeting of tumor cell lists.

Application of the modified herpes simplex virus (ohms’) for the treatment of - an aggressive brain tumor - was proposed more than 20 years. Clinical trials have proven the safety and comparative effectiveness of this method, however, said the head of the group, a neurosurgeon Chukka Antonio (Antonio Choice), experts noted that a large number of immune cells in the tumor after treatment.

For the understanding of the processes authors derived a special line of mice that were present as human cells and key immune cells of the human body - a virus attack normal killer (NK) cells.