Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:39 pm
Hi Tim,
There obviously is nothing new regarding the mechanisms responsible for masking other than it being an unknown situation until Opexa started trying to identify mrtc's revealed it.
Bob
Well that eases my mind that the little buggers have an enjoyable trip to the lab!IHaveMS-com wrote: The blood cells frolic and have a merry old time.
Pretty much you're just restating the problem as I already suspected it to be. You know more about it than I do but I'm pretty sure I personally don't know enough about it to even guess. I will say that when I was reading through your last posting it did flash through my mind that this might have something to do with whatever is behind the relapsing/remitting aspect.IHaveMS-com wrote:Maybe masking is like dangling a worm in front of a fish. If the fish isn't hungry or is not stimulated by the bait, it does not go after the bait. Opexa dangles 100 different peptide fragments over 3 of the major myelin proteins to identify an individual's MRTC set. Why don't the MRTCs go for the bait? If this is in fact the case, then masking would down-regulate the appetite of MRTCs and there by lessen attacks. I really do not have a handle on this.
There obviously is nothing new regarding the mechanisms responsible for masking other than it being an unknown situation until Opexa started trying to identify mrtc's revealed it.
Bob