OttawaGuy
Aug 12, 2009, 07:33 PM
An experimental treatment cured mice of a disease similar to multiple sclerosis, and Canadian researchers are optimistic it will have the same effect on humans.
The therapy involved extracting B cells from the mice, treating them with a so-called "fusokine," and re-injecting them, according to Jacques Galipeau, MD, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.
The treatment completely suppressed experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, Galipeau and colleagues said online in Nature Medicine.
read the rest (http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/MultipleSclerosis/15492)
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The therapy involved extracting B cells from the mice, treating them with a so-called "fusokine," and re-injecting them, according to Jacques Galipeau, MD, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.
The treatment completely suppressed experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, Galipeau and colleagues said online in Nature Medicine.
read the rest (http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/MultipleSclerosis/15492)
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090812/mtl_090812/20090812/?hub=MontrealHome
