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Possible Lupus treatment breakthrough from Monash University Australia 😁 - Still in research phase but looking good ?

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Hi. I'm from Victoria - Australia.

Monash University, connected to Monash Medical centre Melbourne - seems to have pulled off a potential Lupus treatment breakthrough. It's just hit the mainstream news media here and there's a lot of excitement online.

PRMpro who's responded below has provided a sucessful link to their article. ( I haven't mastered links to this site )

Thankyou PRMpro !

What do you think ?

Some good news ?

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PMRpro

Here is the link to the press release

monash.edu/medicine/news/la...

If you add a note to your post that everyone will see that the link is in the first comment - so people know to look if they aren't up to searching themselves ...

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Freckle1000β€’ in reply toPMRpro

Hello PRMpro. πŸ‘‹Good to say hello again.

Thanks for your backup.

I'll have a go at it.

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Freckle1000β€’ in reply toFreckle1000

No success with adding a link. Thanks for providing one.

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PMRproβ€’ in reply toFreckle1000

No - just say the link is below, you don't need to bother with the link itself,

The example they give at the end of the press release (explaining how regulatory T cells (T-regs) production might be improved to help Lupus sufferers) of a student who has Lupus is very good also.

monash.edu/medicine/news/la...

Thanks for sharing.

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Freckle1000β€’ in reply toStriatedCaracara

Hi πŸ™‚Yes - you're absolutely right. I've only ever had a small amount of contact with Vu via Facebook thingi's but she runs it really well and is good at making a supportive space. She's constantly wrangling people for social meet up' s all over the state and just keeps soldiering on, chasing people up πŸ™ƒ

Shes a lot like many people here. Pretty amazing.

I'm a bit mindfilul that she's representing Monash very strongly - but she's a force for good.

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SurferGuy

this is great new. Seems there are a few trials going on right now so fingers are firmly crossed these trials come to fruition over the coming years.

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Freckle1000

You're right . There are a lot of these types of trials going on. Sorta hoping with all these new breakthroughs in technology and better understanding of the immune system that a cure might actually become a reality.........soon ?.......praps?

But it is hard to put these breakthroughs into context due to the shiny new boible / tech delusion effect.

- gotta hope one of them are close though.

😁

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Suvi8901

Other lupus research (Regulatory T Cell based therapies)-

Regulatory T cells in lupus nephritis:

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

Recent advances of epigenetics in the pathogenesis of SLE:

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

New insights in systemic lupus erythematosus: From regulatory T cells to CAR-T-cell strategies:

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

The role of IL-35 in SLE (2024 study):

β€œHighlights-

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an auto-inflammatory disease that is characterized by chronic and widespread inflammation.

IL-35, the newest member of the IL-12 family, is an immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory cytokine secreted mainly by regulatory cells. IL-35 appears to hold therapeutic and diagnostic potential in cancer and autoimmune diseases.

IL-35 can consider as a preferential therapeutic or diagnostic candidate in SLE management.”

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

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Freckle1000β€’ in reply toSuvi8901

Hi Suvi - Sorry - a bit slow off the mark here. πŸ™ƒπŸ™‚

All I can say is ' Wow ' and thank you so much for posting all these research articles. It's reassuring to know a lot of people are working on a cure.

I've got a lot of reading to do.

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