Inositol is a sugar:
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This is the fourth of 6 guest posts on infection and chronic disease.
By Ousmane Diallo
Last week in class we tackled an interesting topic, the role of Mycobacterium Avium Paratuberculosis (MAP) in the genesis of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). The authors Saleh E. Naser (oops the name means in Arabic ‘The virtuous […]

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I haven’t posted on the vaccine/autism question for several reasons. It is quite well covered by other science bloggers, it tends to generate more heat than light, and we didn’t have anything new to say. I have on several occasions discussed it with two of the world’s top experts on the health effects of mercury […]

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Well, it’s a better title than “Duration of Stool Colonization in Patients Infected with Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.” What the authors were looking at is how long E. coli and K pneumoniae (another opportunistic commensal that is found in people at low densities) that carry resistance genes that encode enzymes known as […]

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This is the third of 6 guest posts on infection and chronic disease.
Does chronic IL-6 levels lead to epigenetic changes in DNA methylation that contribute to this pathway?
By Matthew Fitzgerald
How can infection be a carcinogen?
How do infectious diseases lead to cancer, if at all, is still a highly debated area of research. Do infectious […]

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I’ve just got the feedback on my final piece of coursework, and it’s better than I extecpted:
A well written description of TrpM8 function in cold sensation. It is written clearly and in the context of experimental evidence. Some additional figures to summarise the results discussed would have been helpful.
The choice of papers demonstrates a […]

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US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael Leavitt, is in Indonesia to discuss matters of mutual interest with the Indonesian government. Topic number one was the Indonesian government’s opt out of the international influenza surveillance system which has been in place for almost 60 years and provides vital information on what flu strains to […]

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