Feeling like a Yo Yo here! re: Press Conference

[Guest guest]

List:

We have been gettng posts to the effect that the press conference

Regarding the squalene research

is " On, then Off, today On and Off once again. My suggestion is

to let veterans and current military be aware of this web url

which is the exact location of PMID: 10640454:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10640454 & form=6 & db=m & Dop\

t=b

They can also use the word squalene as a search word

here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

When/if there is a press release, forward that to other veterans

and the various lists. I see no reason to be restrained from referring

to the Vanity Fair article if you wish, since it is already in the

public domain.

Gretchen

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10640454 & form=6 & db=m & Dop\

t=b

Exp Mol Pathol 2000 Feb;68(1):55-64

Antibodies to Squalene in Gulf War Syndrome.

Asa PB, Cao Y, Garry RF

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane Medical School, 1430

Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana,

70112

[Record supplied by publisher]

Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is a multisystemic illness afflicting many Gulf

War-era veterans. The molecular pathological

basis for GWS has not been established. We sought to determine whether

the presence of antibodies to squalene correlates

with the presence of signs and symptoms of GWS. Participants in this

blinded cohort study were individuals immunized for

service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm during 1990-1991. They included

144 Gulf War-era veterans or military employees

(58 in the blinded study), 48 blood donors, 40 systemic lupus

erythematosus patients, 34 silicone breast implant recipients,

and 30 chronic fatigue syndrome patients. Serum antibodies to squalene

were measured. In our small cohort, the substantial

majority (95%) of overtly ill deployed GWS patients had antibodies to

squalene. All (100%) GWS patients immunized for

service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm who did not deploy, but had the

same signs and symptoms as those who did deploy,

had antibodies to squalene. In contrast, none (0%) of the deployed

Persian Gulf veterans not showing signs and symptoms of

GWS have antibodies to squalene. Neither patients with idiopathic

autoimmune disease nor healthy controls had detectable

serum antibodies to squalene. The majority of symptomatic GWS patients

had serum antibodies to squalene. Copyright 2000

Academic Press.

PMID: 10640454