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Oral Tolerance Induction in Hemophilia B Dogs Fed with Transplastomic Lettuce.
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy - 1 Feb 2017
Herzog Roland W, Nichols Timothy C, Su Jin, Zhang Bei, Sherman Alexandra, Merricks Elizabeth P, Raymer Robin, Perrin George Q, Häger Mattias, Wiinberg Bo, Daniell Henry
Abstract excerpt
Anti-drug antibodies in hemophilia patients substantially complicate treatment. Their elimination through immune tolerance induction (ITI) protocols poses enormous costs, and ITI is often ineffective for factor IX (FIX) inhibitors. Moreover, there is no prophylactic ITI protocol to prevent anti-drug antibody (ADA) formation. Using general immune suppression is problematic. To address this urgent unmet medical...
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