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Study shows promise against peanut, other food allergies
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 10, 2011 | MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA

Posted on 10/10/2011 6:25:31 PM PDT by decimon

A new preclinical study is raising hope of a potential cure for peanut and other food allergies, having found a way to turn off a body’s life-threatening allergic response to peanuts.

The study by researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine achieved peanut tolerance by attaching peanut proteins onto blood cells and reintroducing them to the body — tricking the immune system into thinking the proteins pose no threat.

The approach, previously used to target autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, was used for the first time, successfully, to target allergic diseases, researchers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: foodallergies

1 posted on 10/10/2011 6:25:34 PM PDT by decimon
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2 posted on 10/10/2011 6:26:32 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
"attaching peanut proteins onto blood cells"

You got peanut butter in my blood.

You got blood on my peanut butter.

Two great tastes in one!

(At least for vampires)

3 posted on 10/10/2011 6:45:50 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: decimon

"good news, soon you too can have a tongue as long as one of your legs"

4 posted on 10/10/2011 6:48:49 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: decimon
The approach, previously used to target autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes,

This is the part that has me hoping. Autoimmune disorders run in my family.
5 posted on 10/10/2011 7:39:22 PM PDT by Ellendra (God feeds the birds of the air, but he doesn't throw it in their nests.)
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To: decimon

We have been eatings nuts and berries since before we took our first swing out of the tree. A genetic predisposition to anaphalactic shock induced by ground nuts should doom that gene carrier to extinction, so the question isn’t how do we switch it off. The real question is how it got turned on in the first place, and in the last 25 years or so.


6 posted on 10/10/2011 7:57:52 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Doogle

That tongue should be hanging in a deli.


7 posted on 10/10/2011 8:02:17 PM PDT by decimon
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Holy crap I almost spit water all over my keyboard. Very very funny.
8 posted on 10/10/2011 9:31:33 PM PDT by teenyelliott (www.therightscoop.com/herman-cain-brings-the-house-down-at-values-voter-summit/)
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To: decimon

AHHH ....just in time

Peanut Butter Prices Are Rising By 24 to 40 Percent

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2790903/posts


9 posted on 10/11/2011 2:58:12 AM PDT by Einherjar
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