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Antibodies that could cure prion diseases
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010816-03
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The Prusiner lab that reported a possible treatment regime for vCJD involving currently licensed drugs, has made another important advance in the battle against spongiform encephalopathies. In August 16 Nature David Peretz and colleagues from the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, show that recombinant prion protein-specific antibodies inhibit prion propagation and clear cell cultures of prion infectivity.
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