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Infections, Toxic Chemicals and Dietary Peptides Binding to Lymphocyte Receptors and Tissue Enzymes are Major Instigators of Autoimmunity in Autism
Comparison of a Broad Spectrum Anti-Aging Nutritional Supplement with and without the Addition of a DNA Repair Enhancing Cat’s Claw Extract
Dietary supplements, designed to fortify the antioxidant status of human metabolism, are in-tended to provide nutritional support against the aging process. The strategy is based on the observation that environmental and metabolic sources of oxidatively generated free...
Neurophysiological Effects of Chronic Indoor Environmental Toxic Mold Exposure on Children
The phenomenon of building-related diseases is attracting much research interest in recent years because of the extent to which it affects people with compromised immune systems, especially children. In this study, we reported the neurological findings in children who...
Antibodies against Molds and Mycotoxins Following Exposure to Toxigenic Fungi in a Water-Damaged Building
Exposure to molds in water-damaged buildings can cause allergy, asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, mucus membrane irritation, and toxicity--alone or in combination. Despite this, significant emphasis has been placed only on Type I allergy and asthma, but not on the...
Point-counterpoint: the immune system in cancer
Cancer patients face immune system challenges pri-marily in 2 areas: (1) fighting malignancies throughimmune mechanisms and (2) confronting theimmune-suppressive effects of the disease and treat-ments. In this Point-Counterpoint, we explore thepotential role of the...
Antibodies to neuron-specific antigens in children with autism: Possible cross-reaction with encephalitogenic proteins from milk, Chlamydia pneumoniae and Streptococcus Group A
We measured autoantibodies against nine different neuron-specific antigens and three cross-reactive peptides in the sera of autistic subjects and healthy controls by means of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing. The antigens were myelin basic protein...
The Immune System in Cancer
Cancer patients face immune system challenges primarily in 2 areas:(1) fighting malignancies through immune mechanisms and (2) confronting the immune-suppressive effects of the disease and treatments. In this Point-Counterpoint, we explore the potential role of the...
New evidence for antioxidant properties of vitamin C
This study was designed to examine the effect of 500 to 5,000 mg of ascorbic acid on DNA adducts, natural killer (NK) cell activity, programmed cell death, and cell cycle analysis of human peripheral blood leukocytes. According to our hypothesis, if ascorbic acid is a...
Interferon-Induced Proteins are Elevated in Blood Samples of Patients with Chemically or Virally Induced Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Overlapping symptomatologies between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Chemical Sensitivity have been observed by different investigators. Therefore, it is of great importance to develop biomarker(s) for possible differentiation between viral induced CFS (without...
TNF-α and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Based upon the clinical presentation of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), we hypothesized that proinflammatory cytokines may play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease. We therefore undertook a retrospective cross-sectional study to examine the role of TNF- in...