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Researchers in Germany 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.
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Diagnosis - Brain Drain - NYTimes.com: Ovarian teratoma encephalitis is so rare that it is still not well understood, but the author of the paper theorized that these particular tumors ? which have the potential to grow any type of cell in the body ? develop primitive brain cells. Somehow the immune system mistakenly identifies these cells as ?foreign? and makes antibodies to destroy them. These antibodies go on to attack the same kind of cells in the brain.
Genetic deletion of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase res...[Neurosc i Lett. 2008] - PubMed Result: Using a chronic mouse EAE model, we present data indicating that mice lacking FAAH experience an initial inflammatory phase of EAE similar in severity to wild type controls, but exhibited a more substantial clinical remission compared to wild type mice.
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