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1 posted on 12/08/2020 9:44:18 AM PST by Red Badger
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"Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), a therapeutic biologic composed of pooled antibodies from tens of thousands of donors"

Pooled plasma increases the risk of spreading prion diseases, and other infectious agents. IIRC, when the Clintons were selling pooled plasma taken from Arkansas prisoners to Canada, it caused an AIDS outbreak.

2 posted on 12/08/2020 9:59:42 AM PST by null and void (My President is a Person Of Color, Orange is a Color...)
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Using preclinical models, the research team tested whether focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles, a non-surgical method used to briefly increase the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, could improve the delivery of IVIg to the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in learning and memory and severely degenerated in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

As is my habit I will play Devil’s advocate.

Lowering the permeability of the blood-brain barrier would necessarily raise the risk of a pathogen entering the brain.

Off course no treatment comes without attendant risk.

3 posted on 12/08/2020 10:04:09 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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In my humble opinion, Alzheimer’s is a disease that will have a cure within 5 years.


4 posted on 12/08/2020 10:06:49 AM PST by BrexitBen
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What about adult stem cells?


6 posted on 12/08/2020 10:11:32 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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