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Article: UCLA team develops treatment for cat allergies
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- April 27, 2005
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Tracy Skadeland
University Wire
04-27-2005
(Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- A new treatment for cat allergy sufferers may be available in a few years.
A team of six doctors at the University of California at Los Angeles has created a molecule, GFD, which combines the cat protein that triggers allergies with a human protein that stops the reaction, according to their research report published in medical journal Nature Medicine.
Injections of GFD successfully stopped airway swelling in mice that had been sensitized to cat allergies. In blood cultures from people who were allergic to cats, GFD reduced histamine release by more than 90 percent. Histamines are proteins commonly produced ...