August 05, 2004

"Immunotherapy Halts Alzheimer's in Mice"

Perry Metzger reports in "Immunotherapy Halts Alzheimer's in Mice" that:


...the injection of antibodies targeting the beta amyloid plaques into the brains of mice with a close analog of Alzheimer's disease managed to trigger a response in which the immune system cleared the plaques. Neurofibrillary tangles associated with the disease cleared spontaneously shortly after the amyloid plaques vanished.

Posted by Russell Whitaker at August 5, 2004 09:44 AM | TrackBack
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