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HIV Medicine Might Help Middle-Aged Memory Loss: UCLA Study

University of California, Los Angeles Health Sciences found a crucial biochemical process underlying memory linking. The UCLA scientists concentrated on a gene called CCR5, which encodes the CCR5 receptor, which HIV uses to infect brain cells and cause memory loss in AIDS patients. The study shows that maraviroc might be used off-label to assist recovery of middle-aged memory loss as well as repair the cognitive deficiencies caused by HIV… read-more

Tue, 31 May 2022 - 09:41 PM / by Vidhi Jhunjhunwala

Tags: HIV, medicine, Memory Loss, Scientists, University of California Los Angeles

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