Category Archives: Immune System

Chronic inflammatory stress.

July 28, 2010 – 5:19 pm

<The immune and endocrine systems interact through the HPA axis.> 1: Baillieres Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1999 Dec;13(4):555-65. Chronic inflammatory stress. Harbuz MS. University Research Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Bristol, UK. A major mechanism involved in maintaining homeostasis in response to chronic inflammation is the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, resulting in the release [...]

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Involvement of innate immunity in the development of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

July 28, 2010 – 12:44 pm

<Note: The nature of wheat changed greatly with the Industrial Revolution as local varieties were replaced by standardized ones.> 1: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Jun;1051:787-98. Involvement of innate immunity in the development of inflammatory and autoimmune  diseases. Tlaskalová-Hogenová H, Tucková L, Stepánková R, Hudcovic T, Palová-Jelínková L, Kozáková H, Rossmann P, Sanchez D, [...]

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Aggregated alpha-synuclein activates microglia: a process leading to disease progression in Parkinson’s disease.

July 28, 2010 – 11:41 am

<Note: Iron triggers aggregation of alpha-synuclein.> 1. FASEB J. 2005 Apr;19(6):533-42.  Aggregated alpha-synuclein activates microglia: a process leading to disease progression in Parkinson’s disease. Zhang W, Wang T, Pei Z, Miller DS, Wu X, Block ML, Wilson B, Zhang W, Zhou Y, Hong JS, Zhang J.  Neuropharmacology Section, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Chemistry, National Institute [...]

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Wheat, Intolerance, and PD

February 20, 2010 – 2:35 pm

I want to speculate a little more than I normally would, mainly because I haven’t finished researching this topic yet. I have been thinking about wheat, of course, and that has led to some interesting questions. What if our food is trying to kill us? I don’t mean that our poor choices of fatty snacks [...]

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Analogies and Understanding PD

February 17, 2010 – 12:33 pm

PD is a complex creature and difficult to understand. One way to overcome this problem is by using analogies to make it comprehensible. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a good analogy is just as valuable. One major feature of YOPD is the struggle to maintain homeostasis, or balance, in the mind [...]

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About PD

February 12, 2010 – 3:50 pm

Tutorials and General Instruction – Arranged from Beginner to Advanced, more or less. The Human Brain From the Franklin Institute, this has to be one of the best on our subject and is particularly directed at the beginning student. It is also one of the best designed sites on the web. BBC The Human Body [...]

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Cascade – Inflammation and Immune Factors

February 8, 2010 – 12:12 pm

(This post references the graphic entitled “The Parkinson’s Cascade” found here.) Just as Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease can have a part of its origin in fetal exposure to maternal stress, so too does it arise from a similar exposure to problems with “Maternal Health” and particularly the products of maternal infection. Like the exposure to [...]

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Tying it all together – stress, trauma, PD

December 29, 2009 – 7:11 pm

A report in this morning’s Science Daily News started a cascade of  its own as several pieces of the puzzle clicked into place. With the charming title of “Seeing Family for the Holidays? Scientists Discover How the Stress Might Kill You” It goes on to state “”…. researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center [...]

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Neuroinflammation – Summary

September 15, 2009 – 7:45 pm

Over the last few weeks it has been somewhat like the clouds have parted and a new understanding of Parkinson’s Disease has emerged. While a great deal of research on the role of inflammation has long been available, it has been one of a number of possible explanations. It has now moved from the “possible” [...]

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Neuroinflammation: The Key- Part 5

September 8, 2009 – 10:11 pm

Today’s London “Telegraph” reported on a study in the current issue of the journal “Neurology” that pretty much seals the case for neuroinflammation as causal in both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases. Beginning with a group of 222 AD patients with an average age of 83, they obtained baseline data via blood work and cognitive testing. [...]

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