There s hope for people with cat allergies as scientists have come up with a vaccine credit.
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The hypocat vaccine described in the journal of allergy and clinical immunology is applied directly on cats instead of people to prevent allergic reactions.
It works by teaching the animals immune system to fight the protein called fel d 1.
The vaccine for felines that hypopet has been working on induces anti fel d 1 antibodies in the cat.
Finally when samples from your catrades who got the vaccine were mixed with blood from humans with cat allergies there was less allergy related chemical reactions than usual.
It is this turbo charged response by the immune system rather than the protein itself that causes the distressing symptoms.
People unjustly kept away from feline companionship due to an allergy are rejoicing this week after news resurfaced of a potential vaccine that makes cats less able to cause allergies.
These antibodies bind to fel d 1 and thus have the ability to lower or neutralize its.
A team of scientists from the swiss firm hypopet ag has developed a vaccine to combat the feline produced protein fel d 1 to which 10 of humans are allergic according to their press release.
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