monolaurate

In the new research, researchers examined a compound called glycerol monolaurate, which is recognized as safe.

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In the new research, researchers examined a compound called glycerol monolaurate, which is recognized as safe.

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Meanwhile, Robin Shattock, an HIV researcher at St George's, University of London, says that the latest results do not rule out the possibility that glycerol monolaurate is simply destroying the virus directly, as most surfactants are thought to do.

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A microbicide made from glycerol monolaurate - an ingredient in some foods and cosmetics - can protect female monkeys from contracting an HIV-like virus, researchers have found.

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Schlievert's lab had found that glycerol monolaurate inhibits the production of some deadly bacterial toxins, including anthrax toxin and toxins responsible for toxic shock syndrome.

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He counters that repeated use of nonoxynol-9 was found to cause inflammation and lesions in the vagina and cervix, yet his safety studies have thus far shown no evidence that glycerol monolaurate causes such damage

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None of the macaques treated with glycerol monolaurate showed evidence of infection in these first two weeks, although Haase notes that one of the monkeys did later develop an infection.

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Despite those results, some researchers are reluctant to back the idea of taking glycerol monolaurate into human trials.

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So Haase mixed glycerol monolaurate with a gel, and tested its ability to block SIV infection in the macaques.

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As for glycerol monolaurate, Hillier says the compound is "going to require more attention before we know whether or not it has promise as a microbicide"..

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