http://www.bioproductguide.com/blog A comprehensive guide to bio products for medical professionals Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:56:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://www.bioproductguide.com/blog/2010/02/02/study-shows-some-antibodies-attack-cytokines/ http://www.bioproductguide.com/blog/2010/02/02/study-shows-some-antibodies-attack-cytokines/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:58:23 +0000 Jim Marino http://www.bioproductguide.com/blog/?p=231 Two studies published on February 1 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine reveal that patients with a rare autoimmune disease produce antibodies that attack microbe-fighting immune proteins called cytokines. These findings may help in explaining the reasons of some patients catching yeast infections recurrently. Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome, or APS-I, afflicts one in 100,000 people and is characterized by disrupted thyroid and adrenal gland function and recurrent skin infections with one type of yeast.

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