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Article: Mice offer insight into therapy for cat allergy
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- April 5, 2005
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If you're a mouse, an attack of the sniffles when you scamper by a
bit of cat hair may be a good thing -- an early warning system
allowing a quick getaway from the predator lurking under the bed.
In the natural world, of course, mice rarely, if ever, suffer from
cat allergies. But laboratory mice specially bred to be allergic to
cats have been cured by researchers who have developed a novel
approach to allergy treatment.
The results may lead to better therapy for millions of people who
are allergic to cats -- including 14 percent of children from age 6
to 19 -- and for the estimated 50 million Americans who suffer from
some type of allergy.