T Cell Vaccination

tmcdaniel · Post by **tmcdaniel** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:27 am

An article worth reading about
T Cell Vaccination.
http://www.bcm.edu/neurology/msrl/t_cel ... ation.html[/url]

Lyon · Post by **Lyon** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:20 pm

Daisy3 · Post by **Daisy3** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:38 pm

Would love Loobie to respond:-)

patientx · Post by **patientx** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:54 pm

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?

Lyon · Post by **Lyon** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:04 pm

patientx · Post by **patientx** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:35 pm

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.