Released on: May 22, 2008, 12:53 pm

Press Release Author: Summer Montgomery

Industry: Healthcare

Press Release Summary: A research from medical experts suggest that antidepressants
may help the body fight HIV and cancer. They believe that some antidepressant drugs
may help the immune system to fight off serious infection.

Press Release Body: United States, New York, New York, May 21, 2008 -
DrugStoreTM.Com offers something fresh to provide you, Antidepressants: A Possible
Cure for HIV and Cancer?
Why Antidepressants can be a possible cure for HIV and Cancer?
A group of experts recently disclosed that antidepressant drugs may help the immune
system fight serious illnes. They said that antidepressants enhance the activity of
natural killer cells, key elements of the immune system, and could help the body
combat infections such as HIV and even cancer.
Natural killer (NK) cells are white blood cells which home in on infected or
cancerous cells, releasing agents that induce apoptosis, or "cell suicide." NK cells
are especially active against viruses.
What can we expect from DrugstoreTM\'s Anti-Depressants?
The research emerged from findings that stress and depression impair NK cell
function and can accelerate the progress of HIV/AIDS. Scientists recruited depressed
and non-depressed HIV-positive women and treated them with three drugs to treat
stress and depression. Two, Citalopram and the "substance P antagonist" CP-96345
increased NK cell activity, while RU486 had no effect.
These drugs were selected because, as the authors state, each of these drugs affect
underlying regulatory systems that have been extensively investigated in both stress
and depression research as well as immune and viral research.

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