Herpes Cancer

Several synthetic pyrimidines and purines are useful drugs Acyclovir was the first effective antiviral compound and is used to treat herpes infections 6 Mercaptopunne is one of the drugs used to treat childhood leukemia which has become a very treatable form of cancer with a cure rate approaching 80%... 

Vaccine development is hampered by the fact that recurrent disease is common. Thus, natural infection does not provide immunity and the best method to induce immunity artificially is not clear. The genome of these vimses is also able to cause transformation of normal cells, thus conferring on them one of the properties attributed to cancerous cells. Vaccine made from herpes vimses must, therefore, be carefully purified and screened to eliminate the possibihty of including any active genetic material. 

Neuropathic pain is initiated or caused by a primary lesion in the peripheral or central nervous system. The causative agent may be trauma, nerve-invading cancer, herpes zoster, HIV, stroke, diabetes, alcohol or other toxic substances. Neuropathic pain is refractory to most analgesic drugs. Altered sodium channel activity is characteristics of neuropathic pain states. 

CMV, a virus of the herpes family, isa common viral infection. Healthy individuals may beoome infected yet have no symptoms. However, immunocompromised patients (such as those with HIV or cancer) may have the infection. Symptoms include malaise, fever, pneumonia, and super infection. Infants may acquire the virus from the mother while in the uterus, resulting in learning disabilities and mental retardation. CM V can infect the eye, causing retinitis. Symptoms of CMV retinitis are blurred vision and decreased visual acuity. Visual impairment is irreversible and can lead to blindness if untreated. 

Ishii Morita, H., Agbaria, R., Mullan, C.A., Hirano, H., Koeplin, D.A., Ram, Z., Oldfield, E.H., lohns, D.G., and Blaese, R.M., Mechanism of bystander effect killing in the herpes simplex thymidine kinase gene therapy model of cancer treatment, Gene Therapy, 1997, 4, 244—251. 

The most widely studied therapeutic proteins produced in plants include monoclonal antibodies for passive immunotherapy and antigens for use as oral vaccines [40]. Antibodies against dental caries, rheumatoid arthritis, cholera, E. coli diarrhea, malaria, certain cancers, Norwalk virus, HIV, rhinovirus, influenza, hepatitis B virus and herpes simplex virus have been produced in transgenic plants. However, the anti-Streptococcus mutans secretory antibody for the prevention of dental caries is the only plant-derived antibody currently in Phase II clinical trials [40]. Until recently, most antibodies were expressed in tobacco, potato, alfalfa, soybean, rice and wheat [9], It has been estimated that for every 170 tons of harvested tobacco, 100 tons represents harvested leaves. A single hectare could thus yield 50 kg of secretory IgA [3, 41]. Furthermore, it has been estimated that the cost of antibody production in plants is half that in transgenic animals and 20 times lower than in mammalian cell cul-... 

Hairy Leukoplakia. This is an abnormal condition of the mouth in which white plaques appear on the surfaces of the tongue. These plaques are not due to the overgrowth of a fungus or bacterium. They are due to the abnormal growth of the papillae cells of the tongue. These plaques cannot be scraped off they resemble cancer cells and appear as a result of infection with Epstein-Barr virus, which is a member of the herpes virus family. 

In 1990, Moore et al. reported the isolation of S-cyano-h-methoxy-ll-methyl-indolo[2,3-fl]carbazole (357), along with a minor component, 6-cyano-5-methoxy-indolo[2,3-fl]carbazole (358), from the blue-green alga Nostoc sphaericum EX-5-1 (340). These were the first, naturally occurring, indolo[2,3-fl]carbazole alkaloids with a simple indolo[2,3-fl]carbazole (356) framework (Scheme 2.92). These alkaloids are moderately active against herpes simplex virus type 2 and are weakly cytotoxic against murine and human cancer cell lines (340). 

HERP value is the lifetime daily exposure rate experienced by humans (in milligrams per kilogram of body weight) that lowers, by one-half, the percent of tumor-free animals in a bioassay experiment over a standard lifetime of the animal. Asterisks imply that the substance acts as a promoter of cancer and is not genotoxic itself. 

Although one cannot say whether the ranked chemical exposures are likely to be of major or minor importance in human cancer, it is not prudent to focus attention on risks at the bottom of a ranking if the same methodology identifies numerous, common human exposures that pose much greater possible risks. Our rankings are based on the human exposure/rodent potency (HERP) index, which is the ratio between the average human exposure to a chemical and the dose that caused cancer in 50 percent of exposed rodents. 

Pain caused by functional abnormalities or structural lesions in the peripheral or central nervous system frequently arising from injury (e.g. surgery, accident or amputation), diseases (e.g. diabetes, herpes zoster or cancer), infarction or dysfunction of the nervous system. A damaged nerve may initiate signals in other nerves not associated with the injured area. It may either have a burning sensation or an aching sensation. 

Their DNA is also integrated into the host genome. Some viruses that usually produce lysis of cells, e.g., SV40, adenoviruses, herpes viruses, and hepatitis B virus, can occasionally be integrated into the DNA of the host. If such integration occurs in the middle of a gene, that gene will be mutated. This is one way in which such viruses may induce cancers. 

Recent work has centered upon use of interferon as a therapeutic agent in humans and animals. In humans, local application of monkey interferon is effective in reducing the seventy of vaccinia virus skin infections. Recent results with herpes keratitis and chronic hepatitis are promising. Interferon appears to be active against oncogenic viruses in the treatment of such cancers as osteogenic sarcoma, and at present it is only the limited availability of interferon that pie vents more extensive testing. 

According to the CDC, the diagnosis of AIDS constitutes certain opportunistic infections, neoplasms, encephalopathy or wasting syndrome in the presence of HIV infection. In 1993, the CDC expanded the criteria to also include CD4+ T-cell count below 200 cells/p,l in the presence of HIV infection. The most common opportunistic infections includepneumocystis carinii pneumonia, pneumonitis, toxoplasmosis, mycobacterial disease, recurrent herpes simplex virus infection and/or cytomegalovirus infection. Kaposi s sarcoma is the most common form of cancer. HIV-related nervous system diseases include acute septic meningitis, AIDS dementia complex, subacute encephalitis, HIV encephalopathy and CNS opportunistic infections and neoplasm. 

Shen Y, Nemunaitis J. 2006. Herpes simplex virus 1 (SHV-1) for cancer treatment. Cancer Gene Ther. 13 975-992. 

Other research groups are combining stress inducible promoters with the Cre-LoxP site specific recombination system of PI bacteriophage. Scott et al. (2000) have combined the ionizing radiation inducible EGR-1 promoter with this recombination system to express herpes simplex vims thymidine kinase (HSV-tk). With this combination system, radiation doses relevant for cancer treatment can be used to... 

Hajri, A., Wack, S., Lehn, P., Vigneron, J.P. and Lehn, J.M. (2000) Efficient transfer of double suicide genes (herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase and Escherichia coh-CD) into peritoneal disseminated pancreatic tumor cells by the cationic lipid BGTC. Cancer Gene Ther., 7,1393-1393. 

Vile, R.G. and Hart, I.R. (1993) Use of tissue-specific expression of the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene to inhibit growth of established murine melanomas following direct intratumoral injection of DNA. Cancer Res., 53, 3860-3864. 

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