METHOD FOR DETECTING OR MONITORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT OF T CELL MEDIATED DISEASES

摘要

It has been discovered that treatment of an IDDM model with the p277 auto-antigen in a tolerogenic carrier induces a shift from a TH1 T cell response to a TH2 T cell response. The efficacy of proposed vaccines for any T cell mediated disease can be detected ormonitored by measuring for such a TH1}TH2 T cell response shift.