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Alzheimer's vaccine: a cure as dangerous as the disease?
1Neuroimmunological Cell Biology Unit, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF), University of Leipzig, Federal Republic of Germany. mueg@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Journal of Neural Transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)
|April 17, 2002
Abstract:
Studies in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease suggested the potential for a vaccine development. However, some patients in the human clinical trials developed symptoms of brain inflammation, demonstrating the high risk of a deliberately induced auto-immune response.