Warning Speculation Ahead (grins) It's ability to penetrate the bodies core systems including digestive (GI), reproductive (but not uterine, which is interesting) and immune systems (lymph glands) means that it either encodes a protein sequence that the body recognizes as needed (not likely) or it turns off the bodies ability to recognizes it as a threat. (most likely, see Gerwyns post on the why we don't get colds thread)
This is all so cool!
Hey George, you are all ahead of me on this, but your speculation here caught my eye, I am not sure we all can't get colds. Plus, what I recall is unlike other virus making loads of copies and spewing them forth, XMRV is happy to take over a cell and spew just viral proteins.
That got me thinking about a hunch I had reading Devin Starlanyl's book on FM regarding the fascia and ground substance, it makes the cell wall and cell cytoskeleton as well. FM may originate in the fascia from a paper from OHSU, there are about a dozen or so proteins making up these tissues.
It is likely mitochondrial dysfunction, per Myhill, is a core problem with CFS, the mitos are old and few and therefore function poorly to produce ATP, they seem not to go into Apoptosis properly. So I check on how apoptosis is supposed to function, for some reason a process called blebbing causes the decoupling of the cytoskeleton from the plasma membrane, the cytoskeleton breaks up.
Soooo... My speculation is that something is inhibiting that process, could it be that the body is taking up 'like' proteins that are not working properly? Your cells have "fibro?" :scared: So actually I prefer your first speculation as fitting my hunch. Or maybe some kind of blebbistatin is produced?
Okay I am :sleepy: and I have a :headache: time to go :In bed:
I like you guys are on the case!
