A brief history of antibody-based therapy

M. Alpaugh; F. Cicchetti

Neurobiology of Disease (Oct 2019)

A brief history of antibody-based therapy

M. Alpaugh,
F. Cicchetti

Affiliations

M. Alpaugh: Département de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec, Axe Neuroscience, T2-50, 2705, Boulevard Laurier, Québec, QC G1V 4G2, Canada; Corresponding author at: Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec, Axe Neuroscience, T2-50, 2705, Boulevard Laurier, Québec, QC G1V 4G2, Canada.
F. Cicchetti: Département de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec, Axe Neuroscience, T2-50, 2705, Boulevard Laurier, Québec, QC G1V 4G2, Canada; Corresponding author at: Département de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 130
p. 104504

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Active and passive immunization have been used to treat human disease for hundreds of years and improvements in technology and knowledge is only increasing the number of therapeutic applications. The current and future use of immunization to treat neurodegenerative diseases are briefly described herein to serve as an introduction to this special issue.

Published in Neurobiology of Disease

ISSN: 0969-9961 (Print); 1095-953X (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurobiology-of-disease

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