{"id":19091,"date":"2019-02-11T07:58:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T07:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19091"},"modified":"2019-02-11T07:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T07:58:06","slug":"new-measurable-indicator-could-prove-instrumental-in-fight-against-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/new-measurable-indicator-could-prove-instrumental-in-fight-against-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"New measurable indicator could prove instrumental in fight against HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>George Mason University&#8217;s Yuntao Wu is the lead scientist on a research team that has identified a measurable indicator that could prove instrumental in the fight against HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The research focuses on cofilin, a key protein that regulates cells to mobilize and fight against infection.<\/p>\n<p>In an HIV-infected patient, cofilin dysfunction is a key factor in helper T cell defects, according to the research recently published in the journal\u00a0<em>Science Advances<\/em>. Helper T cells augment the body&#8217;s immune response by recognizing the presence of a foreign antigen and then helping the immune system mount a response. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20190211\/New-measurable-indicator-could-prove-instrumental-in-fight-against-HIV.aspx\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>George Mason University&#8217;s Yuntao Wu is the lead scientist on a research team that has identified a measurable indicator that could prove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}