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T Cell Vaccination

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:27 am
by tmcdaniel
An article worth reading about
T Cell Vaccination.

http://www.bcm.edu/neurology/msrl/t_cel ... ation.html[/url]

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:20 pm
by Lyon
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:38 pm
by Daisy3
Would love Loobie to respond:-)

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:54 pm
by patientx
It looks like many of the references in that link are from the mid-90's, early 2000's. Does anyone know if this was this the forerunner of Opexa and Tovaxin, or was it a separate line of research into T-cell vaccination?

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:04 pm
by Lyon
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:35 pm
by patientx
Lyon wrote:It's a forerunner of Tovaxin because it regards the same Dr Zhang who developed Tovaxin
Thanks.

I've often wondered about the T-cell vaccination approach. Given the research showing that there's more going on beside just de-myelination (i.e. nerve cell death), and that B cells may somehow be involved, is targeting myelin reactive T cells enough? Especially considering that treatments like Campath, which target both T cells and B cells, show good results. I wonder if the researchers investigting the T-cell vaccination considered this, or if they just focused on the de-myelination aspect of MS.