A compound from olive-pomace oil gets 80% slowing down of HIV spread

Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, verified that maslinic acid – found in wax from olive skin – inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment.

Mots‑clés

• HIV-AIDS
• maslinic acid
• olive oil

Pays

Spain