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- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.201800.24962@omen.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:18:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: omen.1993Jan03.201800.24962
- References: <2348@hsdndev.UUCP>
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- In article <2348@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan3.063107.9871@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >>Let me just that that I wouldn't want to be the first to volunteer
- >>for any kind of immunological attack on fat cells. The potential
- >>for disaster seems almost limitless.
- >
- >This certainly seems like a reasonable concern. Various collagen
- >vascular diseases such as lupus can have an associated panniculitis,
- >which I assume is due to an autoimmune attack on fat cells. This can
- >be fatal.
-
- There has been some concern about the selectivity of the
- generated antibodies in the papers published so far, but no
- concern about triggering an autoimmune reaction. It hasn't been
- a disaster for the animal subjects. Please read the papers.
-
- I'm sure that application of immunological attack to human fat
- cells will not be deployed before through testing and
- evaluation, a step that should have been applied to traditional
- weight loss methods.
-
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