- A team from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, among others, has found that a naked DNA vaccine can protect mice against the autoimmune disease encephalomyelitis. When vaccinated with naked DNA coding for a variable region of the T-cell receptor V-beta8.2, an increase in interleukin-4 and a reduction of IL-2 was observed, which was associated with suppression of the disease.
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