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The researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that Lupus patients may benefit from a drug used to prevent organ-transplant rejection (an analog of Rapamycin). The research done on Lupus-prone mice revealed that the drug blocks a key biochemical process in their defective immune cells. This is an important discovery, and can lead to a whole new approach on Lupus treatment, if it's found to work on humans as well. The drug hasn't been tested on humans yet, though, and this will be the next step of the study. If it works on human subjects, this research can be the key to an efficient Lupus treatment (so far, there isn't any known cure for Lupus, and the existent treatments bring along a pathology of their own...). Here's an explanatory article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/79827.php Let's wait, see, and hope... Anybody has some input, or knows of any other Lupus studies and experimental drugs? |
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