viruses

Virus Control of Cell Metabolism for Replication and Evasion of Host Immune Responses María Maximina B Moreno-Altamirano, Simon E Kolstoe, Francisco Javier Sánchez-García Over the last decade, there has been significant advances in the understanding of the cross-talk between metabolism and...

Hello guys :) i don't know what to do right now. Some docs says bacteria are stronger than viruses and if you treat bacteria like lyme borrelia, viruses can't survive. But some docs says exactly the opposite. But maybe you need to treat both if you have strong CFS for a long time. But which...

The Hidden Enemy Within: Non-canonical Peptides in Virus-Induced Autoimmunity (Lodha et al., 2022) https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.840911 An article from Bhupesh Prusty about cryptic antigens, which are one way that viruses can cause auto-immunity. To learn more about cryptic antigens...

:monocle: I thought I would start a thread to summarize discussions about the research on how viruses can cause autoimmunity. :monocle: We already have two good discussions about papers which describe the ways in which viral infections, or chronic inflammation, can cause autoimmunity: How...

[2020] Higher 25-hydroxyvitamin D level is associated with increased risk for Behçet's disease https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32593521/ Background & aim: Previous studies showed a vitamin D deficiency in patients with Behçet's disease, suggesting potential benefits of vitamin D supplementation...

Sorry for the cumbersome title, but the following study is definitely worth looking at. I love it because it reflects my idea that an external trigger, i.e. an entity with different DNA (or RNA) from your own triggers ME. Many of us got ME after having a "run of the mill" viral infection. I...