The Scientist : Exploiting the autoimmune response [14/8/2001]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010814-02

14 August 2001

Injection of monoclonal antibodies against key self-proteins produced encouraging results in diseases models such as arthritis, allergy and breast cancer. In August Journal of Clinical Investigation Bryce Chackerian and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, US, show how to convince immune systems to self generate therapeutic autoantibodies similar to the monoclonal antibodies.

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