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gluten-free-mike
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 Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:27 am Post subject: Drug fools immune system to fight allergy |
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Below is a quoted article from ScienceDaily.com that had me wondering if a similar technique could be employed to help people with CD.
Basically, scientists are tricking the body's immune system to "reset" its reactions against certain allergens - in this case hay fever and dust-mites. Maybe such a technique can be pushed further and be useful for CD, since CD is an autoimmune disorder. (Wishful thinking perhaps).
| Quote: | Drug fools immune system to fight allergy
ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A Swiss company is testing a hay fever drug that tricks the human immune system into acting as if it has been exposed to an infectious agent found in dirt.
Cytos Biotechnology has tested CYT 003-QbG10 on 10 people with hay fever and has found that their sensitivity to grass pollen is 1 percent after treatment to what it was before, New Scientist magazine reports. So far, the subjects have been free of hay fever for eight months.
A previous study found that people who are sensitive to dust mites have remained free of symptoms for at least a year.
The drug mimics the effect of exposure to mycobacteria, which somehow reboots the immune system, New Scientist said. |
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