On Roll Tonight!

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Geez.... This is the first time I've seen them make the link to so many illnesses.

 

Regarding the D7/18 monoclonal antibody, eight recent studies investigating D8/17 positivity on the surface of B cells demonstrated elevated D8/17-positive cases in a subset of neuropsychiatric disorders that includes PANDAS, SC, OCD, TS, trichotillomania, tics, autism, and anorexia nervosa (Table 3). In these studies, investigators did not use uniform standardized laboratory procedure, thus the reliability of these study results is in question. For example, recently Hoekstra et al. stressed the importance of using an isotype control to account for nonspecific antibody binding64 and Murphy et al. recommended a specific dilution of D8/17 (1:1000) to detect its specific epitope.65

 

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/16/3/252