"Here we showed that pyridostigmine is able to modify T cell overactivation and proliferation in patients chronically infected with HIV. Pyridostigmine led to an increase in the antiinflammatory cytokine IL-10 and a decrease in T cell proliferation and production of the proinflammatory cytokine IFN-γ."
Read more in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, online August 1, 2009.
Comment: This early human study could be important. The drug is approved but hazardous; it may have caused Gulf War Syndrome in the 1991 war, when it was used as protection against possible nerve-gas attack.
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