by Steve Anderson, Ph.D. | Jun 11, 2015 | Articles
I just did a little exercise for myself and I want to share the results, and then share a new way of looking at the relationship between sleep and fibromyalgia. The exercise was to ask, “if I wanted to learn about the current thinking about fibromyalgia in the...
by Steve Anderson, Ph.D. | Jun 10, 2015 | Articles
Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disease that results in pain swelling the joints. An autoimmune disease is a condition where your immune system attacks your own tissues, in this cells and tissues lining the joints. RA involves both T cells, which directly attack...
by Steve Anderson, Ph.D. | Jun 9, 2015 | Articles
This post contains some fun facts about the cells found in our blood. It’s presented in a slightly disorganized way—part table and part text. All the information comes from Wikipedia or MedLine. I hope you will find it interesting and informative. This post...
by Steve Anderson, Ph.D. | Jun 8, 2015 | Articles
Repurposing drugs already approved by the FDA for different applications is highly attractive because these drugs have known pharmacology and toxicity profiles, as well as established manufacturing and formulation methods. That’s why thousands of existing drugs, those...
by Steve Anderson, Ph.D. | Jun 7, 2015 | Articles
I had heard of Scarlet Fever, but to be honest I didn’t know what it was. A faded memory from microbiology classes long past. Recently, a friend of mine got it so I decided to look it up. Scarlet Fever, it turns out, is a sequela (plural = sequelae) of Strep Throat. A...
by Steve Anderson, Ph.D. | Sep 19, 2012 | Articles
How T cells and B cells Communicate Introduction In order to set off the adaptive or Ag-specific immune response T cells and B cells must talk to each other over a shared antigen (Ag). This process is known as “cognate interaction”. It occurs between a B cell...
