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Article: ANTIBODIES BODE ILL FOR 'MAD COW' DISEASE
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- March 5, 2003
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Antibodies bode ill for 'mad cow' disease
Mar 05, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- In findings
that could portend ways to stymie a host of deadly and bizarre brain
disorders, British researchers have shown that a synthetic version
of nature's prime disease-fighting weapon can foil agents implicated
in "mad cow" disease, its human equivalent and related neurological
ailments.
The team observed that injections of monoclonal antibodies -- laboratory-
produced proteins made in the image of the body's own health-protecting
mechanisms -- kept infected mice alive and well nearly a year after
their untreated counterparts had succumbed to the incurable ...