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Prepares Scientific Research Therapy Immune System to Attack Cancer
In the national newspaper El Espectador published a new news given by scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) this month who will present the results of his work on gene therapy against cancer is to alter the system immune and prepare to attack the disease, told Efe Spanish doctor Antoni Ribas.
“Part of the work is to alter the immune system of a mouse and do be prepared to attack the cancer. The results of these investigations will be published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’” said Ribas, who works together with seven researchers to create genetic therapy could be a hope for cancer control.
“I deal with patients suffering from a type of cancer that begins in the skin and then goes to the internal organs, called melanoma,” said Efe Ribas, associate professor of Oncology at the Jonsson Comprehensive Center for cancer research at UCLA.
But “when the cancer is in internal organs there is no effective treatment so far. That’s why research in gene therapy that we have done over 15 years in mouse now we are applying in human volunteers, with results surprising, “he said.
Ribas heads the research group composed of Richard C. Koya, Stephen Moka, Begoña Comin-Anduixa, Thinle Chodonb, Caius G. Raducan, Michael I. Owen N. Nishimura Wittec, which are responsible for a team of 20 health professionals who, in turn, are advised by David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1975.
“The other part of the research is to understand cancer biology and used to block specific treatments that activate genes,” explained Ribas.
On your computer, the doctor showed a series of images of shapes of mice and human volunteers taken scanner, which when compared over a period of two weeks of therapy cancer tumors are reduced.
“The cancer gene is activated in human melanoma and treated him with the PLX4032 chip, which, unlike chemotherapy which is the whole body, goes directly to cancer. We are seeing positive results in 80% of patients, “he said.
Born in Barcelona on March 19, 1966, Ribas is a physician graduated from the University of Barcelona.
“I did not want to spend my life giving chemotherapy to patients not understanding how things work and so thought I’d come to UCLA to work in laboratory research with the doctor whom did Jim Economou studies to stimulate the immune system to attack cancer” recalled Ribas.
Diarrhea
Diarrhea Symptoms
Although the basic facts is an increase in the number of bowel movements and decreasing consistency, not infrequently associated with other symptoms such as fever, food intolerance with nausea and vomiting and abdominal pain. If the diarrhea may appear very large dehydration from loss of fluids.
Diagnosis
In most cases of infectious diarrhea, if the patient’s condition was not serious, very clear signs that the inspection is not necessary to confirm the diagnosis. History of food consumption that could badly or the involvement of several people who have participated in the same foods are public events that help the diagnosis.