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Topic: How Borrelia Attaches to Cells: Read This

oxygenbabe
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Very clearly written:

http://spirochetesunwound.blogspot.com/2009/02/lyme-disease-spirochete-hijacks.html

Now.
It wouldn't be feasible to take anti-fibronectin antibody, even if we could...we need our fibronectin.

However. I have long thought if we could put Bb to "sleep"--by giving it something to bind to just like what it binds to in our body-----we might really attenuate the infection.

Cranberries do that for e. coli. Instead of binding to the bladder wall, they bind to the sugars in the cranberry, and you don't have a bladder infection any longer.

Admittedly, with widespread tissue infection, a chronic infection could only be adjunctively or slowly mediated with this approach---but eventually, all daughter spirochetes have to move through blood to get to tissue.

Also if you scroll down he has wonderful videos, they made borrelia fluorescent and you can see it trying to get through the vasculature. One little bugger has to try very hard and keeps "bumping" up against it until he finally gets through.

YUCK.

[ 02-09-2009, 10:04 AM: Message edited by: oxygenbabe ]

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oxygenbabe
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Interesting article.

Bumping you up...

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Cold Feet
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Don't forget that Bb can and does enter into host cells, even white blood cells. Once there, they can mediate extraordinary changes in the outer surface proteins of the host cell...thereby evading the human immune system.

This it true for many types of mycobacteria, but it would appear that some strains of Bb are comparatively more sophisticated. [Frown]

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oxygenbabe
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Coldfeet--that's the point. Fibronectin is used.

Once it's inside tissue/cell--any intracellular pathogen learns to avoid recognition by the immune system. For instance the EBV virus persists for just that reason.

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oxygenbabe
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Up--people should read this I hope

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