Re: OT: Antibodies help repair nerve cells; except in the spine and brain.

[Guest guest]

Similarly, I've read that " clean up " mechanisms by macrophages can lead to

immune protection against tumor cells lysed by chemo.

The cells gobble-up the cellular material but also present abnormal proteins

within the wreckage to dendritic cells that could lead to adaptive immune

response.... Staudt's group found that the immune signature following

chemotherapy correlates with the duration of the response in DLBCL. And Levy

has reported that localized radiotherapy can lead to regressions in non-radiated

lesions in follicular lymphoma, particularly when the radiated nodes have been

injected with immmune adjuvants.

Karl