The specialists of the Research Institute of California Pacific Medical Center, USA found that a protein found in one of the herpes virus group, significantly accelerates the growth of the cancer and make it aggressive. CMV affects about 50% of the people who are years older than 35. The symptoms are not pronounced, so most people who are carriers of the infection is not known. The virus can live in the body throughout life and not to show it. For healthy people, it is not so bad, but dangerous for people with weakened immune systems (especially for patients with HIV / AIDS). During pregnancy can lead to fetal death. Traces of cytomegalovirus was found in cancers of the brain for a long time, but the role they play in the cancer process, the experts found only now. According to lead researcher Charles Cobbs can cytomegalovirus IE1 protein to influence the increased aggressiveness of tumors through a two-pronged attack. First, it blocks the proteins that suppress brain cells in the tumor, and then helps to create paths for the transmission of signals in the growth of the tumor itself. The new discovery will allow scientists to find a cure for gliomas, the most common form of malignant brain tumor. It is difficult to treat, as these patients do not operate, and shown radiotherapy and chemotherapy, in this case only in small amounts. Usually, patients with gliomas die within a year. The result is not only of academic interest. When disposing of the medicine ganciclovir and other drugs inhibiting the replication of cytomegalovirus. If the results of a group of scientists from Cobbs will recognize these drugs are likely to be given to patients with diagnosed or suspected cancer of the brain. It is possible that the same method can in prostate cancer and colon cancer, which is suspected to facilitate Cobbs, can be complicated by cytomegalovirus infection.
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