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Unforeseen Role Of Immune Response In Neurological Repair Could Lead To Vaccine
April 11th, 2001
by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Macrophages and T cells can stop the spread of damage after central nervous system injury, report Weizmann Institute of Science researchers. Immune activity was heretofore considered at best a neutral player in the central nervous system (CNS), and at worst destructive. But now Michal Schwartz and colleagues propose that within strictly controlled conditions, immune response can heal. "A recent study in our laboratory showed, against all expectations, that macrophages and a particular type of T-cell, by promoting re-growth and reducing the post-traumatic spread of damage in the injured rat optic nerve or...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-04-11)
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