Mouse Cure Raises Hopes for MS
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: August 12, 2009
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
Primary source: Nature Medicine
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http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nm.2003.htmlAn experimental treatment cured mice of a disease similar to multiple sclerosis, and Canadian researchers are optimistic it will have the same effect on humans.
The therapy involved extracting B cells from the mice, treating them with a so-called "fusokine," and re-injecting them, according to Jacques Galipeau, MD, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.
The treatment completely suppressed experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, Galipeau and colleagues said online in Nature Medicine.
The key, the researchers said, is the "fusokine" -- a laboratory construct of the immune stimulatory molecules interleukin-15 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor.
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This is encouraging but as my son who has Progressive MS says he hopes they (Big Pharma) don't stop this from coming to reality. Big Pharma makes millions on MS meds and they would loose out on it if a cure was found. Sorry for being cynical but it happens just like the car industry killed the electric car. I pray they don't defeat this!