To treat some diseases, researchers are putting immune cells on a diet
By Mitch LeslieMar. 29, 2018
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/treat-some-diseases-researchers-are-putting-immune-cells-diet
Infection Elicited Autoimmunity and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Explanatory Model
Jonas Blomberg 1, Carl-Gerhard Gottfries 2, Amal Elfaitouri 3, Muhammad Rizwan 1 and Anders Rosén 4
Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Clinical Microbiology, Academic...
Kegan J. Moneghetti, Mehdi Skhiri, Kévin Contrepois, Yukari Kobayashi, Holden Maecker, Mark Davis, Michael Snyder, François Haddad & Jose G. Montoya
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20941-w
For those new to it, Ted Ed is an initiative to create short animated talks for education purposes.
This latest one provides a cute intro to the immune system. Its pretty basic, but still kind of cool. And worth a look if you're currently stuck in bed.
I promised to write something about this group of diseases, which I came across during my own diagnostic journey. They are not the same as MECFS, but they have some interesting similarities, and may provide some clues as to what's going wrong in many of us.
Background: The two main components...
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