Lipodystrophy is a medical condition characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue. "Lipo" is Latin...

AIDS wasting is the involuntary loss of more than 10% of body weight, plus more than 30 days of either diarrhea, or weakness and fever. Wasting is...

HIV and Glutamine Glutamine-antioxidant nutrient supplementation can increase body weight, body cell mass, and intracellular water when compared...

Mistletoe, or Viscum album is a semi-parasitic plant that grows on oaks and other trees in Europe and Asia. Mistletoe is also found in America and...

An Intergrase Inhibitor is a drug used in HIV / AIDS therapy that prevents the virus from integrating its DNA with that of a host's cells, thus...

Salvage Therapy is a final treatment for people who are non-responsive to or cannot tolerate other available therapies for a particular condition,...

A disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that attacks the immune system and leaves the person susceptible to unusual...

Azidothymidine (also called zidovudine or ZDV; the Burroughs-Wellcome trade name is Retrovir). One of the first drugs used against HIV infection,...

Without symptoms. Usually used in AIDS literature to describe a person who has a positive reaction to one of several tests for HIV antibodies, but...

Cellular suicide, also known as programmed cell death. HIV may induce apoptosis in both infected and uninfected immune system cells. Uninfected...

A substance or process that destroys a virus or suppresses its replication.

Antibodies that recognize and inactivate toxins produced by certain bacteria, plants or animals.

Inhibiting or preventing the proliferation of tumor cells.

Substances used against retroviruses such as HIV.

A substance that, when introduced into the body, is capable of inducing the production of a specific antibody.

Molecules in the blood or secretory fluids that tag, destroy or neutralize bacteria, viruses or other harmful toxins. They are members of a class...

An antimicrobial agent, derived from cultures of a microorganism or produced semisynthetically, used to treat infections.

A lower than normal number of red blood cells.

A life-threatening allergic reaction characterized by a swelling of body tissues (including the throat) and a sudden decline in blood pressure.

Any of a class of organic compounds having a carboxyl group (COOH) and an amino group (NH2). Some 22 amino acids are commonly found in animals,...