Coeliac Vaccine Trials In Melbourne

[goodguy]

Hi All,

I was looking at the NSW Ceoliac Society website and noticed that two treatment therapies were under development.

One was a dietary supplement which breaks down gluten and the second one is a vaccine therapy. Apparently it is has ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED and is awaiting trials in Melbourne now.

I was recently sent out a survey by the Coeliac Society (in Sydney) which had is origins from a researcher .....we a were asked about possible interest in a therapy where a monthly shot would be administered...........we then would be able to consume gluten and live normal dietary lives..

I have not heard anything about this on this forum and woner why this has not recieved greater publicity - given the huge difference it will make to our lives.

Cheers

[goodguy]

Hi All,

I was looking at the NSW Ceoliac Society website and noticed that two treatment therapies were under development.

One was a dietary supplement which breaks down gluten and the second one is a vaccine therapy. Apparently it is has ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED and is awaiting trials in Melbourne now.

I was recently sent out a survey by the Coeliac Society (in Sydney) which had is origins from a researcher .....we a were asked about possible interest in a therapy where a monthly shot would be administered...........we then would be able to consume gluten and live normal dietary lives..

I have not heard anything about this on this forum and woner why this has not recieved greater publicity - given the huge difference it will make to our lives.

Cheers

Dear All

Below is the article I was referring to. I am sorry it seems to have cut and pasted into a long narrow collumn. I hope "skinnygirl" and a few others who are desperatly unhappy get some hope from this.

Regards to all.

goodguy

The coeliac vaccine to

enter clinical trials

Dr Robert Anderson*

updates us on the

progress into the

development of the

coeliac vaccine.

Towards the middle of 2008, the

coeliac

[teemaree]

This is amazing and fantastic news.......

imagine what this would mean to so many people around the world............

I can't see why they can't come up with something....

The medical world has certainly made some amazing break throughs.....

[veggienft]

......(1).Very few new technologies have a single home. The coeliac vaccine was conceived in Oxford, England with the discovery of the one critical part of wheat gluten toxic in the common genetic version (HLA DQ2) of coeliac disease (2). As much as the identity of the toxic component of gluten was important, it was the way in which it was found that has proven to be even more important. By eating gluten in wheat, rye, or barley for three days (even a single meal will suffice in some people), immune cells (T cells) that damage the small intestine re mobilised into blood for a few short days (3). The T cells in blood can be monitored and analysed to define what part of gluten they recognise. The parts of gluten recognised by the vast majority of T cells involved in coeliac disease can be condensed to a few