Diabetes Talking

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Does anyone know of the incidense of people with MS in Africa with parasitic worm infections? If MS is indeed autoimmune it would be interesting to know this. Cheers Bob

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that’s a very weird one bob. so you’re looking for stats on people in africa who have ms and parasitic worms at the same time? isn’t it conceivable that a parasitic worm infection is transient? such stats could change from day to day? why would such stats be of interest, particularly? "Bob Hartley" <r.hart…@bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message

news:7b144ff3.0403241033.5b3d6032@posting.google.com… Does anyone know of the incidense of people with MS in Africa with parasitic worm infections? If MS is indeed autoimmune it would be interesting to know this. Cheers Bob

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"jils" <j…@SPAMBEGONEoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message <news:40627743$1$3953$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>… > that’s a very weird one bob. > so you’re looking for stats on people in africa who have ms and parasitic > worms at the same time? > isn’t it conceivable that a parasitic worm infection is transient? such > stats could change from day to day? > why would such stats be of interest, particularly?

OK I used to work in tissue engineering and was interested in cartillage degeneration/repair. I went to a seminar where someone was talking about parasites and one thing that she mentioned was the evasive techniques the parasites use to be silent to the immune system. I asked if this was a reduction in the efficacy and indeed it was. I then asked if the protein she purified could be used theraputically to prevent auto-immune dedgeneration of cartillage. She didn’t know, however, one of the lads I played football with (a prof of parasitology who lived in africa for 8 years) mentioned that people with this parasite infection had less incidence of auto-immune linked diabetes. IE could it help in MS? I think I’ll mail them in the lab and ask. Just curious Bob

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Is Rheumatoid arthritis an autoimmunity to cartilllage in the joints, or some other component ?? Roarke "Bob Hartley" <r.hart…@bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message

news:7b144ff3.0403260211.66502445@posting.google.com… > "jils" <j…@SPAMBEGONEoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message

<news:40627743$1$3953$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > that’s a very weird one bob. > > so you’re looking for stats on people in africa who have ms and parasitic > > worms at the same time? > > isn’t it conceivable that a parasitic worm infection is transient? such > > stats could change from day to day? > > why would such stats be of interest, particularly? > OK I used to work in tissue engineering and was interested in > cartillage degeneration/repair. I went to a seminar where someone was > talking about parasites and one thing that she mentioned was the > evasive techniques the parasites use to be silent to the immune > system. > I asked if this was a reduction in the efficacy and indeed it was. > I then asked if the protein she purified could be used theraputically > to prevent auto-immune dedgeneration of cartillage. She didn’t know, > however, one of the lads I played football with (a prof of > parasitology who lived in africa for 8 years) mentioned that people > with this parasite infection had less incidence of auto-immune linked > diabetes. > IE could it help in MS? > I think I’ll mail them in the lab and ask. > Just curious > Bob

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