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ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), a compound made from rabbit antibodies appears to be as effective as routine steroids in reducing rejection of transplanted organs without any of the side effects, according to Dr. James Eason of the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Center in Ne...

Hope For Stiff-Person Syndrome

...son syndrome. Patients who had infusions of immune globulin - a collection of antibodies derived from donor bl...ks. The Findings indicate that intravenous immune globulin is safe, well tolerated, and effective for stiff-person syndrome and significantly improves patients...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...ls of a protein called SHBG or sex hormone binding globulin in early pregnancy. The protein is associated with insulin resistance, a condition that can sometime lead to diabetes. Both overweight and lean women who had the low levels of SHBG went on to develop pre-eclampsia. "It also may provide t...

New Anthrax Vaccines Will Take time

...ave to consent before doctors could try the immune globulin on any patients, but using this kind of immune sys...y has worked for other diseases, Lucey said.Immune globulin wouldn't replace antibiotic treatment. But antibiotics kill only anthrax bacteria, not the cell-kill...

Protective regimen for acute Graft-versus-host disease

...g of total lymphoid irradiation plus antithymocyte globulin given before hematopoietic-cell transplantation for lymphoid malignant diseases or acute leukemia can markedly decrease the incidence of acute GVHD while retaining the antitumor effect of the graft, and allows graft antitumor activity in patients wit...

Women Who Take Pill - Risk Losing Their Sex Drive

...ll had four times the level of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which stops testosterone from circulating in the body, as those who had never taken the pill, it said. The research published this month in the Journal of Sexual Medicine was based on 124 pre-menopausal women attending a clinic for sexual dy...

Hybrid antibodies to protect from small pox infection

... other at Russian Laboratory. Anti-vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) is the vaccine used worldwide against small pox virus which is prepared from producing antibodies against a weak attenuated smallpox strain in humans and collecting these humanized antibodies from volunteers which can offer immunity against sma...

Low Awareness Of Kawasaki Disease In Capital: Parents Form Support Group

...ves administration of purified antibodies or gamma globulin through intravenous route. Vineeta Gupta, a member of the support group said that they had to spend nearly Rs. 1,00,000 for their son’s treatment. The support group will serve the public in the provision of authentic clinical information regarding ...

Immune-Boosting Therapies Of No Use In Preventing Miscarriage

...g 303 women, the women received intravenous immune globulin antibodies, while the last one had 37 women who were treated with embryonic tissue called the trophoblast membrane. No difference was found in the instances of live birth births after 28 weeks of pregnancy between women treated with immune-boosting t...

Partial-match cell transplants for kids with resistant leukemia

...tation. RICR also avoids the use of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), a drug commonly used to suppress the remaining immune system of recipients in order to reduce the chance they will reject the transplanted blood stem cells. ATG often delays rebuilding of the immune system in transplant recipients and can lead...

International Collaboration Takes Aim at Rabies

... By using a rabies vaccine and human rabies immune globulin (hRIG) during treatment, patients are protected fr...developing countries. To compensate, equine immune globulin derived from horse serum is used in many parts of the world, but it can carry significant side effec...

Hot Flashes: Studies Explore the Various Possibilities Involved

...iol, estrone, progesterone and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) in midlife women. The researchers were surprised by the findings related to estrogen, because adipose tissue produces and stores estradiol, the major estrogen in humans. Most people had assumed that obese women would have higher circulating ...

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

...mong HIBM patients who received intravenous immune globulin G an effect that researchers suspect was mediated through the provision of sialic acid present in the immune globulin. NHGRI researchers expect the clinical trial of ManNAc for HIBM to begin in late summer or early fall. Based on their findings, t...

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

...n of the HBV vaccine containing hepatitis B immune globulin can prevent infection in those exposed to HIV and HBV respectively. Treatment with interferon can eradicate HCV in more than 90% of cases of acute infection....