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August 16, 2016.
No, chemotherapy is not inevitable, say researchers at the Stanford Academy of Medicine (United States).
Antibodies capable of blocking certain sensors on stem cells
They managed to develop a protocol for performing a bone marrow transplant, which is used not only as a curative care in patients with cancer, such as leukemia, but also in other pathologies, without the need for radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
Experiments to be confirmed on humans
With this new protocol, the number of transplanted grafted cells that die after the transplant drops from 20 to almost 0%. To achieve this, researchers use antibodies capable of blocking stem cell sensors., by binding to the CD47 surface proteins.
For the moment, this work relates to the mouse, but it will soon be tested in vitro on human cells, then, if the results are conclusive, in vivo.
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