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[Jo]

…successfully reversed the SHR animals' symptoms of high blood
pressure, a pre-diabetes condition called insulin resistance, and
immune suppression. …

…The team went on to test whether administration of a protease-
blocking drug could reverse the multiple metabolic complications in
the rat strain. They administered doxycycline, a seemingly unlikely
candidate to have such a beneficial effect. Infectious disease
specialists often prescribe doxycycline, an antibiotic, to counter
bacterial infections. However, in laboratory tests doxycycline also
blocks the activity of certain proteases in the SHR strain of rat.  

The researchers found that protein receptors on the surface of SHR
cells become clipped off as the animals develop hypertension. They
used a novel visualization technique to show that after several weeks
of ingesting doxycycline in their drinking water, the SHR rats
developed cells that again bristled with normal CD18 and insulin
receptors. The animals' metabolic conditions simultaneously improved;
blood pressure normalized and symptoms of immune suppression
disappeared. …

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[linda]

What a great article, thanks for posting it I'm definiltely going to mention it to my new rheumy in SA, Tx, since I have developed hypertension and insulin resisitance from taking prednisone. It would be something if I could knock out those two things along with the PsA.

linda

[Jo]

http://www.ra.com/ra/rastore/cgi-bin/ProdSubEV_Cat_200708_NavRoot_301.htm

 

Carbohydrate Attack May Be Arthritis Culprit

By Anne Harding

[wendi]

Very interesting article.   Still speaks about an infectious cause.  Hmmmm.  Maybe they are fnally on to something here, again.

[Jo]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/08/antibiotics.risk/index.html

 

FDA orders 'black box' label on some antibiotics – CNN.com

 

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