THURSDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Four anti-HIV drugs inhibit a retrovirus recently linked to prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), say U.S. researchers.
If further investigation proves that the retrovirus xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) causes prostate cancer or CFS, these HIV drugs may be an effective treatment for the two conditions.
In this study, researchers from the University of Utah and Emory University/Veterans Affair Medical Center tested how effectively 45 compounds used to treat HIV and other viral infections worked against XMRV. Raltegravir was the most effective, and three other drugs -- L-00870812, zidovudine (ZDV or AZT), and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) -- also prevented XMRV replication.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100402/hl_hsn/hivdrugsmightcombattwootherdiseases;_ylt=AocIQDs6GiS0Uuh6rsl_mgTVJRIF;_ylu=X3oDMTM5aGxtcWE3BGFzc2V0A2hzbi8yMDEwMDQwMi9oaXZkcnVnc21pZ2h0Y29tYmF0dHdvb3RoZXJkaXNlYXNlcwRwb3MDNgRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2hpdmRydWdzbWlnaA--
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