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narcolepsy

narcolepsy

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introduction

  • narcolepsy is a disorder that sparks sudden daytime bouts of tiredness or sleep
  • it seems that narcolepsy is caused by auto-antibodies which target the protein Trib2 which is produced by neurons that also secrete the substance hypocretin, which helps keeps people awake. The auto-antibodies end up destroying the hypocretic neurons.
  • it appears Rx with immunoglobulins produces “extra-ordinary results”1)
narcolepsy.txt · Last modified: 2010/02/20 09:42 by 127.0.0.1

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