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Antibodies could combat prion-based diseases
Email: Simon Frantz - simonfrantz@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010802-04
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LONDON A team from Imperial College School of Medicine are hopeful that they have discovered a way to prevent and destroy prion-based infections, such as scrapie, BSE and vCJD. A study, published in July 31 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that treating cell cultures susceptible to mouse scrapie with an anti-prion antibody not only prevented infection of these cells but also cured chronically infected cultures (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2001 198:9295-9299).
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