MS... Steiner... plot thickens

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Also taking silver stain are Pick bodies, found in some cases of

dementia - related structures seem to exist in Alzheimer's

http://www.binderlab.northwestern.edu/pickbodies.html

Its possible some of Steiner's MS spirochetal l-forms are Pick

bodies, which apparantly are generally thought to comprise deranged

cytoskeletal fibres. There is also a suggestion in print that they

may be borrelial l-forms. I will be reading PMID 2162145 and some

other papers and reportin' back.

> One of the most interesting papers Ive seen so far is G Steiner

1952, an

> optical histology of active MS lesions, utilising silver stains.

Few

> spirochetes were found, but there were very numerous intra- and

extra-

> cellular silver-staining bodies (absent from healthy brains and

antiseptic-

> treated MS brains) that are decent candidates for (preponderant)

> spirochetal l-forms. (Especially in light of MS animal

transmission

> studies referenced by Mattmans book ed. 3 - but I'd like to check

> whether those studies had negative controls, etc).

>

> Some of Steiners pics and utterances can be found in the " survival

> under adverse conditions " document on and around page 10. Which

> also contains a micrograph of ACA from " heterogeneity of Bb in the

> skin " :

>

> http://www.lymeinfo.net/medical/LDAdverseConditions.pdf