[Gazelle]

Vaccine Against Multiple Sclerosis? Mouse Experiment Yields Promising Results

ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2008) — Some 80,000 people in Germany suffer from multiple sclerosis – their immune system attacks and destroys healthy nerve tissue. Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg have succeeded in vaccinating mice with specially treated, autologous immune cells and preventing them from developing encephalitis, which is similar to multiple sclerosis in humans.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1201105851.htm

[oldsteve]

We can only hope. I don't want to be a wet blanket, but this is not the first time that we have heard of success in mice and/or rats. It's gotten to the point that I wish I was a mouse!

[Gazelle]

LOL Yeah, I agree.

Yesterday at the neuro my friend asked the doc if they could replace the spinal cord. He was being facetious, but that part would be great. Maybe eventually they'll figure out how to download everything from our brains into a new brain (except the lesions) and do a brain transplant! Just don't make mine the Abby Normal one if that occurs!

[kicker]

Not to be unhopeful, but ...Oh, to be a mouse!!!!! Then stuff seems to work, I'm no mouse. It hasn't transferred over yet.

[Gazelle]

Well, maybe we need Harry Potter to change us into mice and then change us back!

[dmplaura]

Does it work on hairy chickens as well?

[Gazelle]

Hmmm...... good question. One which I will have to ponder over a while.

But then I must raise the obvious question: Why does a Gazelle have a hairy chicken avatar?

That question is sort of like the sound of one hand clapping.

[dmplaura]

Originally Posted by Gazelle

That question is sort of like the sound of one hand clapping.

Ohhhh, must resist the gutter on this one.... rofl!!!

[Harry Z]

Over the years there have been a number of drugs that have stopped,reversed and cured MS in that poor MS mouse! About 10 years ago, my wife took part in a clinical trial on such a drug that worked on the mouse. The medication ended up causing the death of one patient due to damage to the heart and that quickly ended the trial after about a year.

I wish press releases like this one were a bit more conservative in their comments. At the moment, nobody knows what actually causes MS and to come up with a vaccine that stops encephalitis in a mouse and then state it is possibly promising for MS in humans.....well, that's kind of stretching it!

Harry

[Erin524]

Those lucky mice, all those researchers curing them of Mouse MS.