Talk:Gamma globulin

message: I believe GG shots are given to U.S. servicemen who are going to eat overseas.  I've been told that this causes your body to reject "bad stuff" (poisions and the like) as soon as you eat it.  Anyone have some references or insight?  /Blaxthos 16:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gamma globulin shots

message: The article says they're also called Ig's but it doesn't say why. does the I stand for something or or it because I sorta looks like the Greek letter Gamma? Someone who knows should add an explanation to the article.
--Almosteverywhere (talk) 04:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ig's?

message: The introductory sentences (as of 6 Apr 2011) states "The most significant gamma globulins are immunoglobulins ("Igs"), more commonly known as antibodies, although some Igs are not gamma globulins, and some gamma globulins are not Igs." If this is correct then it should be possible to state which Ig do not separate in the Gamma Zone. Anyone? 
Which Ig are not gamma globulins?
Regarding the converse, it is already implied in the clause at the beginning of the sentence ("The most significant gamma globulins are immunoglobulins") - obviously, the "insignificant" gamma globulins must be something other than Ig.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnfravolda (talk • contribs) 18:38, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Which Immunoglobulins are not gamma globulins?

message: Is this article meant to be for the lay-person? It's very, very confusing.Please see this article for how to accurately describe an complex medical topic to lay-people. 140.247.141.165 (talk) 22:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very confusing 

message: My father was the US Embassy Doc in New Delhi from 1956 to 1958. Sometime in that period he received a shipment of US gamma globulin which was released to treat polio outbreaks. A striking memory for me was big burly Russians in an old looking black car taking my father off one night to their embassy compound because Polio was spreading through their concentrated, cloistered, families. "The Russian Embassy is temporarily out of gamma globulin and we need your help." 
There is renewed interest in treatment with antibodies and it would be interesting/important to know how well the gamma globulin worked against polio and other diseases.
The CIA might have the data - they debriefed my father extensively after his house calls at the Russian and Chinese embassies and were surely following the results.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.71.12.171 (talk) 14:07, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  history of gamma globulin 

message: Is there a connection between Gamma globulin and IgG?  As far as I know there is, but neither article explains it. Gah4 (talk) 08:10, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[IgG]] 

message: Somebody with more expertise than me please consider editing the following. In this short article the 4th paragraph reads
Another theory on how gamma globulin administration works in autoimmune disease is by overloading the mechanisms that degrade gamma globulins. Overloading the degradation mechanism causes the harmful gamma globulins to have a much shorter half of the life in sera.
1. Apart from the theory lacking any references, the explanation in the second sentence seems illogical. Surely overloading the degradation mechanism would reduce degradation of bad gamma globulins too, thus increasing their half-life?
2. The article may have been translated from another language - the phrase half of life looks like it should be half-life.  
Dmhball~enwiki (talk) 13:28, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ig in autoimmune disease