Subject:  Chemokines.......
Date:     Thu, 4 Dec 1997 121217 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Here is the report I promised about chemokines.....  There role
as part of the immune system is what is important to us.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

   
08:20 PM ET 12/02/97

Key immune cells offer up their secret mechanism

        
            WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers said Tuesday they had
discovered one important way that immune system proteins known
as chemokines work, and said their findings could help to find
better treatments for diseases like AIDS and cancer.
            Dr. Tamas Oravecz of the Food and Drug Administration's
(FDA) center for Biologics Evaluation and Review, working with
Mark Gorrell at the University of Sydney, said they found a
protein that controls chemokines.
            Chemokines are signalling chemicals that are key to immune
system functions. For example, they summon the right immune
cells to the scene of an infection.
            Writing in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Oravecz and
Gorrell's teams said they had found a protein known as CD26 on
the surface of certain white blood cells can either enable or
disable chemokines.
            They said new therapies could change the way CD26 acts on
chemokines, perhaps preventing infections with HIV, which is
known to use some of the same receptors, or chemical doorways,
that chemokines do.
         ^REUTERS@

References

   1. http://www.infobeat.com/main/cgi/main_merc.cgi?refurl=www.fullstory.com

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