Re: Articles from "Brain, Behavior and Immunity"

From: RSt (robinmst_at_lycos.com)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:26:18 GMT

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:45:35 -0800, hoofprints
<equsphotogophr@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Thanks Robin,
>Hope all is well and that you have a Wonderful Holiday Season.
>hoof

Hey, you ought to know by now that if you answer one of my posts with
even a one sentence response, you open the door to me writing one of
my long-winded epics ;-)

But since you sort of asked, I recently went for my annual liver
check. The ole liver felt fine with no swelling, and with the latest
bloodwork being AOK, the doc gave me a script for the fibrospect test
to serve as a baseline for later measures in lieu of a second biopsy.
With my immune system keeping the HCV at bay without much liver damage
for all these years, treatment could be risky at this point in that
with a 40 % chance of failure, the revving up of the immune system
could cause the virus to start replicating quicker (where now it seems
to be resting quite peacefully), bringing on more damage. It also
might result in autoimmune problems when now I only have a mild case
of hepatits. So 5 yrs post dx, still no recommendation for treatment.
Sounds reasonable to me.

Best wishes to you, your loved ones and the doggins for a warm
California Christmas. It's looking about right around here for
another white Christmas.

Robin
    
>
>RSt wrote:
>>
>> For some full-text journal articles (which are available for free for
>> a short time only) from "Brain, Behavior and Immunity", go to:
>>
>> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/08891591
>>
>> Click on the currently available Sample Issue: Volume 19, Issue 1,
>> Pages 1-90 (January 2005)
>>
>> Full text articles you can then click on that may be of some interest
>> there:
>>
>> Stress-associated immune dysregulation and its importance for human
>> health: a personal history of psychoneuroimmunology, Pages 3-11 by
>> Ronald Glaser.
>>
>> Hepatitis C, depressive symptoms, viral load, and therapy:
>> interactions and reactions, Pages 20-22 by Steven D. Douglas.
>>
>> Depressive symptoms and viral clearance in patients receiving
>> interferon- and ribavirin for hepatitis C, Pages 23-27 by Charles L.
>> Raison, Sherry D. Broadwell, et al.
>>
>>
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