Now being tested in other auto-immune disease models. This is exciting. They can halt the disease for 100 days in mice, which translates to several years in a human patient.
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-nanopar...-diabetes.html
The particles with myelin antigens attached induce T-cell tolerance after being engulfed by macrophages in the spleen and displayed on their surface. The immune system then recognizes it as normal. The attack on myelin stops.
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-nanopar...-diabetes.html
The particles with myelin antigens attached induce T-cell tolerance after being engulfed by macrophages in the spleen and displayed on their surface. The immune system then recognizes it as normal. The attack on myelin stops.
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