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Warpy

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4. I can boil it down a bit
Wed Feb 26, 2014, 02:52 AM
Feb 2014

They've known for a long time that people with RA tend to have a certain type of marker on their immune cells.

This goes a bit farther and states our cells admit cockeyed proteins that normal people's immune cells destroy while they're in the blood stream. Or their own cells turn the cockeyed proteins into usable substances. Our cells save them. Then our immune systems attack our own cells to get at the bad proteins. It makes sense.

I'd still prefer something that binds to cytokines and makes them inert so that we're not exhausted, depressed and in pain.

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