the US National Institutes of Health (NIH);CONRAD and Starpharma Pty Ltd;the Microbicide Tri- als Network (MTN-004, Ian McGowan, PI) ; the Ado- lescent Trials Network (ATN-062, Alex Carballo-Diéguez, PI)
Young women are an important target group in microbicide research, yet little is known about why they participate and stay in microbicide trials. Our study examined motivations for participating in a Phase I microbici...
One of the new strategies for the prevention of HIV acquisition is the use of microbicides such as topical microbicides including antimicrobial and antiviral peptides. Ideally, new drug candidates should kill pathogen...
We hypothesized that current antimicrobial peptides should be susceptible to proteolytic digestion. The antimicrobial peptides: Griffithinsin, RC-101, LL-37, LSA-5, PSC-RANTES and DJ007 were degraded by commercially a...
Background To effectively block the invasion of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 on mucosal surface, vaginal anti-HIV-1 microbicides should avoid inflammatory responses and disruption of mucosa integrity because...
According to Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) report in 2009, the estimated number of people living with HIV-1 is 33.4 million, and half of the infected adults (aged 15-49 years) are women, who ac...
Objective To develop an optimized BZK gel with good pharmaceutical effect and less toxicity to vaginal mucosa. Methods Four methods as below were used to research the spermicidal activity of BZK gel: 1) in vitro spe...